The Making of the modern body : sexuality and society in the nineteenth century / edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Gallagher, Catherine.
• Laqueur, Thomas Walter.
• Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

• Representations (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 14.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Sex--Miscellanea.
• Sex.
• History.
• Sex--History--19th century.
• Sex--Social aspects.
• Sex Characteristics.
• Sexual Behavior.
• Women--psychology.

Medical Subjects:

• Sex Characteristics.
• Sexual Behavior.
• Women--psychology.

Genre:

• Trivia and miscellanea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 242 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1987]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

• Orgasm, generation, and the politics of reproductive biology / Thomas Laqueur
• Skeletons in the closet : the first illustrations of the female skeleton in eighteenth-century anatomy / Londa Schiebinger
• The body versus the social body in the works of Thomas Malthus and Henry Mayhew / Catherine Gallagher
• 'Cage aux folles' : sensation and gender in Wilkie Collins's 'The woman in white' / D.A. Miller
• "Scenes of an indelicate character" : the medical "treatment" of Victorian women / Mary Poovey
• Morality and the wooden spoon : Russian doctors view syphilis, social class, and sexual behavior, 1890-1905 / Laura Engelstein
• Commercial sexuality in nineteenth-century France : a system of images and regulations / Alain Corbin
• Catastrophic utopia : the feminine as allegory of the modern / Christine Buci-Glucksmann.

Notes:

• "Originally published as Representations, no. 14, Spring 1986"--Title page verso.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9780520908284
• 0520908287

Publisher Number:

• 99984776038
• 9780520059610

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.