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Scholars have only recently discovered that the human body itself has a history. This title features eight articles that support, supplement, and explore the significance of these insights.

Table of Contents
Introduction

THOMAS LAQUEUR
Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics
of Reproductive Biology

LONDA SCHIEBINGER
Skeletons in the Closet: The First
Illustrations of the Female Skeleton in
Eighteenth-Century Anatomy

CATHERINE GALLAGHER
The Body Versus the Social Body
in the Works of Thomas Malthus
and Henry Mayhew

D. A. MILLER
Cage aux folles: Sensation and Gender in
Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White

MARY POOVEY
"Scenes of an Indelicate Character":
The Medical "Treatment"
of Victorian Women

LAURA ENGELSTEIN
Morality and the Wooden Spoon: Russian
Doctors View Syphilis, Social Class, and
Sexual Behavior, 1890-1905

ALAIN CORBIN
Commercial Sexuality in NineteenthCentury
France: A System of Images
and Regulations

CHRISTINE BUCI-GLUCKSMANN
Catastrophic Utopia: The Feminine
as Allegory of the Modern

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 06/02/1987
      ISBN13: 9780520059610, 978-0520059610
      ISBN10: 0520059611
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Scholars have only recently discovered that the human body itself has a history. This title features eight articles that support, supplement, and explore the significance of these insights.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction

      THOMAS LAQUEUR
      Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics
      of Reproductive Biology

      LONDA SCHIEBINGER
      Skeletons in the Closet: The First
      Illustrations of the Female Skeleton in
      Eighteenth-Century Anatomy

      CATHERINE GALLAGHER
      The Body Versus the Social Body
      in the Works of Thomas Malthus
      and Henry Mayhew

      D. A. MILLER
      Cage aux folles: Sensation and Gender in
      Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White

      MARY POOVEY
      "Scenes of an Indelicate Character":
      The Medical "Treatment"
      of Victorian Women

      LAURA ENGELSTEIN
      Morality and the Wooden Spoon: Russian
      Doctors View Syphilis, Social Class, and
      Sexual Behavior, 1890-1905

      ALAIN CORBIN
      Commercial Sexuality in NineteenthCentury
      France: A System of Images
      and Regulations

      CHRISTINE BUCI-GLUCKSMANN
      Catastrophic Utopia: The Feminine
      as Allegory of the Modern

      List of Contributors

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