Ploy of Instinct

Name: Ploy of Instinct
Brand: Fordham University Press
SKU: 9780823262519
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Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance

Szerző: Kathleen Frederickson

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Fordham University Press

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It is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they wer...

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Szerző

Kathleen Frederickson

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2014

oldal

236

EAN

9780823262519

ISBN

0823262510

Enbook ID

04731824

Kiadó

Fordham University Press

Súly

431

Méretek

152 x 229 x 23

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It is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confession and introspection, given that instinct had long been defined in its opposition to self-conscious thought. The Ploy of Instinct ties this paradox to instinct's deployment in conceptualizing governmentality. Instinct's domain, Frederickson argues, extended well beyond the women, workers, and "savages" to whom it was so often ascribed. The concept of instinct helped to gloss over contradictions in British liberal ideology made palpable as turn-of-the-century writers grappled with the legacy of Enlightenment humanism. For elite European men, instinct became both an agent of "progress" and a force that, in contrast to desire, offered a plenitude in answer to the alienation of self-consciousness. This shift in instinct's appeal to privileged European men modified the governmentality of empire, labor, and gender. The book traces these changes through parliamentary papers, pornographic fiction, accounts of Aboriginal Australians, suffragette memoirs, and scientific texts in evolutionary theory, sexology, and early psychoanalysis.

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