The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900

The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900
ISBN-10
1137338210
ISBN-13
9781137338211
Category
History
Pages
274
Language
English
Published
2015-01-26
Publisher
Springer
Authors
Ralph Bauer, Kimberly Anne Coles, Zita Nunes

Description

The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies.

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