Deviant bodies: critical perspectives on difference in science and popular culture
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bloomington Indiana University Press 1995
Schriftenreihe:Race, gender, and science
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Mapping embodied deviance / Jacqueline Urla and Jennifer Terry -- Gender, race, and nation: the comparative anatomy of "Hottentot" women in Europe, 1815-1817 / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Framed: the deaf in the Harem / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Colonizing and transforming the criminal tribesman: the Salvation Army in British India / Rachel J. Tolen -- This norm which is not one: reading the female body in Lombroso's anthropology / David G. Horn -- Anxious slippages between "us" and "them": a brief history of the scientific search for homosexual bodies / Jennifer Terry -- The Destruction of "Lives not worth living" / Robert N. Proctor -- Domesticity in the Federal Indian schools: the power of authority over mind and body / K. Tsianina Lomawaima -- Nymphomania: the historical construction of female sexuality / Carol Groneman -- Theatres of madness / Susan Jahoda -- The Anthropometry of Barbie: unsettling ideals of the feminine body in popular culture / Jacqueline Urla and Alan C
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 416 Seiten) Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:0585032505