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Social Bodies: Science, Reproduction, and Italian Modernity

1995 Princeton University Press ;ISBN: 9780691037202 ;ISBN: 0691037205 ;ISBN: 9781400821457 ;ISBN: 1400821452 ;EISBN: 9781400821457 ;EISBN: 1400821452 ;DOI: 10.1515/9781400821457 ;OCLC: 681193698 ;LCCallNum: GN298.H67 1994

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  • Title:
    Social Bodies: Science, Reproduction, and Italian Modernity
  • Author: Horn, David G
  • Subjects: 1914–1945 ; 20th century ; Body, Human ; Fascism and culture ; Fascism and women ; Fertility, Human ; Government policy ; History ; History & Theory ; Human reproductive technology ; Italy ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Politics and government ; Social aspects ; Symbolic aspects
  • Description: Using as his example post-World War I Italy and the government's interest in the size, growth rate, and "vitality" of its national population, David Horn suggests a genealogy for our present understanding of procreation as a site for technological intervention and political contestation.Social Bodieslooks at how population and reproductive bodies came to be the objects of new sciences, technologies, and government policies during this period. It examines the linked scientific constructions of Italian society as a body threatened by the "disease" of infertility, and of women and men associalbodies--located neither in nature nor in the private sphere, but in that modern domain of knowledge and intervention carved out by statistics, sociology, social hygiene, and social work. Situated at the intersection of anthropology, cultural studies, and feminist studies of science, the book explores the interrelated factors that produced the practices of reason we call social science and social planning. David Horn draws on many sources to analyze the discourses and practices of "social experts," the resistance these encountered, and the often unintended effects of the new objectification of bodies and populations. He shows how science, while affirming that maternity was part of woman's "nature," also worked to remove reproduction from the domain of the natural, making it an object of technological intervention. This reconstitution of bodies through the sciences and technologies of the social, Horn argues, continues to have material consequences for women and men throughout the West.
  • Publisher: Princeton: Princeton University Press
  • Creation Date: 1994
  • Format: 200
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780691037202
    ISBN: 0691037205
    ISBN: 9781400821457
    ISBN: 1400821452
    EISBN: 9781400821457
    EISBN: 1400821452
    DOI: 10.1515/9781400821457
    OCLC: 681193698
    LCCallNum: GN298.H67 1994
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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