Defects: Engendering the Modern Body by

Defects: Engendering the Modern Body

Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

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nonfiction gender history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Defects brings together essays on the emergence of the concept of monstrosity in the eighteenth century and the ways it paralleled the emergence of notions of sexual difference. Women, declared a mid-eighteenth-century vindication, have been regar...

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