Schuller, Kyla
The Biopolitics of Feeling
- ISBN 13:
- 9780822369530
- author:
- Schuller, Kyla
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Duke University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Pages:
- 296
- Dimensions:
- 22.61 x 15.24 x 1.52 centimetres
- Genre:
- 22.61 x 15.24 x 1.52 centimetres, Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Feminism & Feminist Theory,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century by Kyla Schuller explores how biopower developed in the United States. Schuller challenges prevailing interpretations to reveal how biopower emerged within sentimentalism's discourses and practices. Through analyses of evolutionary theories, gynecological sciences, abolitionist poetry, feminist tracts, child welfare reforms, and black uplift movements, Schuller uncovers a vast apparatus that regulated sensory and emotional feeling. This historical and theoretical work exposes the overlooked role of sex difference in population management and optimizes life, highlighting how binary models of sex function as key mechanisms of racializing power. Schuller's work offers corrective insights to modern debates surrounding racism and determinism, reframing contemporary notions of sentiment, affect, sexuality, evolution, and heredity.
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