Art, Sex and Eugenics: Corpus Delecti

ISBN-13: 9781138259577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 316 str.

Fae Brauer; Anthea Callen

Opis

Exposing uncanny resemblances between eugenic sexual management and body imagery in France, Britain, Communist Russia, Nazi Germany and America well before and after the Second World War, this book reveals how art and sex promoted the eugenic quest for the perfect body. Ultimately the collection establishes that art inculcated sexual desire for procreative heterosexuality with the corpus delecti - the healthy, wholesome delectable body sanctioned by eugenics for genetically improving the Western race.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: making eugenic bodies delectable: art, 'biopower' and 'scientia sexualis', Fae Brauer; 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 20th-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: visualising new Soviet woman as the eugenic ideal, Pat Simpson; Future perfect? The elusive 'ideal type', Christina Cogdell; Bibliography; Index.