The Biopolitics Of Feeling: Race, Sex, And Science In The Nineteenth Century

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.

• | By (Author): Kyla Schuller
• | Publisher: Duke University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 22, 2017
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 296 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0822369532
• | ISBN-13: 9780822369530