Body and Nation: The Global Realm of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Century - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0822356759 ISBN 13 : 9780822356752

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Body and Nation interrogates the connections among the body, the nation, and the world in twentieth-century U.S. history. The idea that bodies and bodily characteristics are heavily freighted with values that are often linked to political and social spheres remains underdeveloped in the histories of America's relations with the rest of the world. Attentive to diverse state and nonstate actors, the contributors provide historically grounded insights into the transnational dimensions of biopolitics. Their subjects range from the regulation of prostitution in the Philippines by the U.S. Army to Cold War ideals of American feminine beauty, and from "body counts" as metrics of military success to cultural representations of Mexican migrants in the United States as public health threats. By considering bodies as complex, fluctuating, and interrelated sites of meaning, the contributors to this collection offer new insights into the workings of both soft and hard power.

Contributors. Frank Costigliola, Janet M. Davis, Shanon Fitzpatrick, Paul A. Kramer, Shirley Jennifer Lim, Mary Ting Yi Lui, Natalia Molina, Brenda Gayle Plummer, Emily S. Rosenberg, Kristina Shull, Annessa C. Stagner, Marilyn B. Young

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Emily S. Rosenberg is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930 and A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory, both also published by Duke University Press, and the editor of A World Connecting, 1870-1945.

Shanon Fitzpatrick is a Faculty Lecturer in the Department of History at McGill University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822356759
• ISBN 13: 9780822356752
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 340
• Éditeur: Rosenberg
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