The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900

Coles, Kimberly Anne; Bauer, Ralph; Nunes, Zita; Peterson, Carla L.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349463954

DOI: 10.1057/9781137338211

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 274