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    The Biopolitics of Childhood in the Long American 19th Century

    The Biopolitics of Childhood in the Long American 19th Century by Hodgson, Lucia; Giffen, Allison;

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 28 February 2025

    • ISBN 9781032563527
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages266 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 648 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 6 Illustrations, black & white; 6 Halftones, black & white
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    Short description:

    This edited collection contends that the figure of the child is foundational to the workings of biopolitical power yet remains undertheorized. The collection is organized into three sections that illustrate how these qualities enable the sorting of human beings into populations targeted for reform, exploitation, and disposal.

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    Long description:

    This edited collection contends that the figure of the child is foundational to the workings of biopolitical power yet remains undertheorized. The study of nineteenth-century biopolitics offers a theoretical framework that promises to increase our understanding of how modern democracies manage their subjects. Recent scholarship has invigorated interrogations into forms of state governance that operate at the level of population, a biological phenomenon defined as a group of individuals linked by racialized fictions of biological commonality. This collection seeks to recognize and position critical childhood studies as essential to these interrogations. The essays theorize the role of representations of children and childhood as tools of biopolitical governance in America in the long nineteenth century. They variously explore how the interrelated and overlapping qualities integral to our understandings of the child and childhood are readily deployed by biopolitical power. The collection is organized into three sections that illustrate how these qualities enable the sorting of human beings into populations targeted for reform, exploitation, and disposal.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Figures


    Notes on Contributors


    Preface: Unmanageable Bodies: Where Childhood Studies and Biopolitics Meet


    Sarah Chinn


     


    Introduction: The Biopolitics of Childhood


    Lucia Hodgson and Allison Giffen


     


    Section I: Heredity


     


    1.     Jacob Riis, Luther Burbank, and the Training of the American Child


    Christa Holm Vogelius


     


    2.     ?Send the Little Patient to the Hospital at Once:? Early Eugenics at North Carolina State Hospital?s Epileptic Colony


    Elisabeth McClanahan Harris


     


    3.     The Biopolitics of Sexual Consent in Lydia Maria Child?s Reform Fiction


    Lucia Hodgson


     


    4.     ?Relics of a Race Never Yet Seen?: Archaeologies of Nineteenth-Century Child Bodies


    Laura Soderberg


     


     


    Section II: Death


     


    5.     Innocent Specimens: Depicting Enslaved Childhood through the Lusus Naturae


    Rebecca M. Rosen


     


    6.     Arrested Development: Disability and the ?Feebleminded? Black Boy in St. Nicholas: Scribner?s Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys


    Allison Giffen


     


    7.     Newsboy Necropolitics: John Ellard, Disability, and Black Absence


    Manuel Herrero-Puertas


     


    8.     ?The Blight?Sooner or Later?Strikes All?: Childhood and the Biopolitics of Racialized Lynching


    Maude Hines


     


     


    Section III: Family


     


    9.     Queer Ontologies: Categories of Age before Developmentalism


    Gabrielle Owen


     


    10.  Biopolitics and Youth Border-Crossing in Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton) and Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Children?s Bodies as Sites of Contention Between White State Power and Families of Color


    Sarah Ruffing Robbins


     


    11.  Twilight Talk: What Every Girl Ought to Know about Sex Education in Louisa May Alcott?s Eight Cousins


    Stephanie Peebles Tavera


     


    12.  The Sentimental Biopolitics of Louisa May Alcott?s Little Women


    Kristin Proehl

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