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…