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Pages: 251
Pages: 251
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Language: en
Pages: 302
Pages: 302
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-20 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gen
Language: en
Pages: 541
Pages: 541
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
"Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780-1940, Revised Edition is a sociohistorical tour de force that examines the entwined forma
Language: en
Pages: 316
Pages: 316
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature--one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era