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"Defects": Engendering the Modern Body (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)

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Description for "Defects": Engendering the Modern Body (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability) Paperback. A groundbreaking contribution to the emerging field of disability studies in the eighteenth century Editor(s): Deutsch, Helen; Nussbaum, Felicity A. Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFSJ; JHM; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.

"Defects" brings together essays on the emergence of the concept of monstrosity in the eighteenth century and the ways it paralleled the emergence of notions of sexual difference. Women, declared a mid-eighteenth-century vindication, have been regarded since Aristotle as deformed amphibious things, "neither more or less than Monsters" (Beauty's Triumph 1758). This alliance of monstrosity with misogyny, along with the definition of sexual difference as aberration, is the starting point for this volume's investigation of monstrosity's cultural work in the eighteenth century and its simultaneous mapping and troubling of the range of differences.
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Product Details

Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Series
Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
Condition
New
Weight
496g
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472066988
SKU
V9780472066988
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Ref
99-50

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