"Defects": engendering the modern body
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"Defects": engendering the modern body
by Nussbaum, Felicity, Deutsch, Helen
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Defects is a collection of essays that demonstrate that the emergence of sexual difference is inextricably woven with the emergence of a category of the human mind that is imagined and deformed, monstrous and ugly.
"Defects": engendering the modern body
by Nussbaum, Felicity, Deutsch, Helene
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Defects: engendering the modern body
by Nussbaum, Felicity, Deutsch, Helen
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Defects: engendering the modern body
by Nussbaum, Felicity, Deutsch, Helen
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Defects: engendering the modern body
by Nussbaum, Felicity, Deutsch, Helen
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"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 deforme…
Among the first books to consider issues of empire in relation to literary texts of the eighteenth century, Torrid Zones offers a compelling revision of the history of feminism in a postcolonial context. Felicity Nussbaum argues that the need to control women's sexuality in eigh…