The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900

By Ralph Bauer, Zita Nunes, Kimberly Anne Coles

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137338202
• ISBN13: 9781137338204
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"