Biopolitics of Feeling - Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth CenturyPaperback
Biopolitics of Feeling - Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth CenturyPaperback In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility--the…
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Biopolitics of Feeling - Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth CenturyPaperback
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. 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. Schuller challenges prevalent interpretations of biopower and literary cultures to reveal how biopower emerged within the discourses and practices of sentimentalism.
Her historical and theoretical work exposes the overlooked role of sex difference in population management and the optimization of life, illuminating