The citizen's body : desire, health, and the social in Victorian England / Pamela K. Gilbert.
The citizen's body : desire, health, and the social in Victorian England / Pamela K. Gilbert.
The citizen's body : desire, health, and the social in Victorian England / Pamela K. Gilbert.
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Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2007.
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N942.081/48
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English
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viii, 194 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Sect. I. Citizenship and the social body -- 1. Citizenship and fitness -- 2. Citizenship, class, and pauperism -- 3. Disease, the social body, and fitness -- Sect. II. Producing the public : public health in private spaces -- 4. The public, the private, and the social -- 5. Housing the social body -...
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Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2007.
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Ohio
Date Published
c2007.
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"The management of the social body through discourses of health became the principal means of negotiating new questions of citizenship and the Condition of England. The Citizen's Body traces the construction of citizenship through the figure of the healthy body, in parliamentary debates on the franchise, in sanitary and housing publications, and in...
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The citizen's body : desire, health, and the social in Victorian England / Pamela K. Gilbert.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-190) and index.
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c2007.
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N942.081/48
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74VKzLkOg6Al
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0814291325 (CD-ROM)
9780814210529 (alk. paper)
081421052X (alk. paper)
9780814291320 (CDROM)
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942.081
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991023472689702626
