Research Catalog

Title

Art, sex and eugenics : corpus delecti / edited by Fae Brauer and Anthea Callen.

Publication

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.

Supplementary Content

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brauer, Fae.
• Callen, Anthea.

Description

xviii, 298 p. : ill.; 24 cm

Summary

Before eugenics was stigmatized by the Holocaust and Western histories sanitized of its prevalence, this book demonstrates that eugenic societies, congresses, exhibitions, installations, films, paintings, photographs and sculptures flourished throughout America, Britain, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.

Subject

• Human beings in art
• Sex in art
• Art and society
• Human body > Social aspects
• Eugenics
• Body image in art
• Sexualität
• Kunst
• Körperbild
• Gesellschaft
• Eugenik

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-288) and index.

Contents

Improper moves: Maori Haka and racial destiny / Roger Blackley -- The art of scientific propaganda / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Eroticizing Lamarckian eugenics: the body stripped bare during French sexual neoregulation / Fae Brauer -- Man or machine: ideals of the labouring male body and the aesthetics of industrial production in early twentieth-century Europe / Anthea Callen -- "Desiring skin": eugenics, trauma and acting out of masculinities in British inter-war visual culture / Gabriel Koureas -- "The proper peep": conflicting female ideals under German national socialism / Lorettann Gascard -- Bolshevism and "sexual revolution": visualizing new Soviet woman as the Eugenic ideal / Pat Simpson -- Future perfect? the elusive "ideal type" / Christina Cogdell.

Call Number

JFE 15-3569

ISBN

• 9780754658276 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0754658279 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008017007

OCLC

225846853

Title

Art, sex and eugenics : corpus delecti / edited by Fae Brauer and Anthea Callen.

Imprint

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-288) and index.

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Table of contents

Table of contents

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Added Author

Brauer, Fae.

Callen, Anthea.

Other Form:

Online version: Art, sex and eugenics. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008 (OCoLC)609211451

Research Call Number

JFE 15-3569