Biopolitics of feeling, the: race, sex, and science in the nineteenth century
Auteur :
Schuller, Kyla
Éditeur :
Duke University Press
ISBN :
9780822369530
Date de publication :
22 déc. 2017
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
408 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility-the capacity to be affected-to expose the powerful workings of sentimental biopower in the nineteenth-century United States, uncovering a vast apparatus of sensory regulation that aimed to shape the evolution of the national population.