The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century

The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century

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Author/Contributor(s): Schuller, Kyla
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 12/22/2017
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
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.