"Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex takes us inside the doctors' chambers to see how and why medical and scientific men construed sex, gender, and sexuality as they did, and especially how the material conformation of hermaphroditic bodies - when combined with socia…
"Victorian Fetishism argues that fetishism was central to the development of cultural theory in the nineteenth century. In analyses of major works by Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Edward B. Tyler, Peter Melville Logan demonstrates the paradoxical role of fetishism in Victori…
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How did Japan, despite its lack of natural resources, become the world's leading iron- and steel-producing country? It is not enough to put an emphasis merely on the role of government. When Japan entered the modern industrial world in the middle of the nineteenth century, the c…
How did Japan, despite its lack of natural resources, become the world's leading iron- and steel-producing country? It is not enough to put an emphasis merely on the role of government. When Japan entered the modern industrial world in the middle of the nineteenth century, the c…
