The Ploy of Instinct : Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance.
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- 9780823262540
- 156
- BF685.F743 2014
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Reading Like an Animal -- 2. The Case of Sexology at Work -- 3. Freud's Australia -- 4. Angel in the Big House -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Without wholly or consistently unseating the idea that instinct marked the proper province of women, workers and/or savages, this shift in instinct's appeal to civilized European men at the turn of the twentieth century nonetheless modified the governmentality of empire, labor, and gender.
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