Schuller Kyla Schuller

Biopolitics of Feeling (eBook, PDF)

Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility-the capacity to be transformed by one's environment and experiences-to uncover how biopower developed in the United States. Schuller challenges prevalent interpretations of biopower and literary cultures to reveal how biopower emerged within the discourses and practices of sentimentalism. Through analyses of evolutionary theories, gynecological sciences, abolitionist poetry and other literary texts, feminist tracts, child welfare reforms, and black uplift movements, Schuller excavates a vast apparatus that regulated the capacity of sensory and emotional feeling in an attempt to shape the evolution of the national population. Her historical and theoretical work exposes the overlooked role of sex difference in population management and the optimization of life, illuminating how models of binary sex function as one of the key mechanisms of racializing power. Schuller thereby overturns long-accepted frameworks of the nature of race and sex difference, offers key corrective insights to modern debates surrounding the equation of racism with determinism and the liberatory potential of ideas about the plasticity of the body, and reframes contemporary notions of sentiment, affect, sexuality, evolution, and heredity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372356
• Artikelnr.: 54672059

Autorenporträt

Kyla Schuller

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Sentimental Biopower  1
1. Taxonomies of Feeling: Sensation and Sentiment in Evolutionary Race
Science  35
2. Body as Text, Race as Palimpsest: Frances E. W. Harper and Black
Feminist Biopolitics  68
3. Vaginal Impressions: Gyno-neurology and the Racial Origins of Sexual
Difference  100
4. Incremental Life: Biophilanthropy and the Child Migrants of the Lower
East Side  134
5. From Impressibility to Interactionism: W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Eugenics,
and the Struggle against Genetic Determinisms  172
Epilogue. The Afterlives of Impressibility  205
Notes  215
Bibliography  247
Index  271