Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences

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State University of New York Press (2014)
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_Investigates the impact of theories of reproduction and heredity on the emerging concepts of race and gender at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries._

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Introduction.  (pages 1-17)Susanne Lettow
Generation, Genealogy, and Time.  (pages 21-43)Susanne Lettow
Organic Molecules,Parasites, Urthiere.  (pages 45-63)Florence Vienne & Kate Sturge
The Scientific Construction of Gender and Generation in the German Late Enlightenment and in German Romantic Naturphilosophie.  (pages 65-82)Peter Hanns Reill
Zeugung/Fortpflanzung.  (pages 83-103)Jocelyn Holland
Treviranus’ Biology.  (pages 105-127)Joan Steigerwald
Skin Color and the Origin of Physical Anthropology (1640–1850).  (pages 131-161)Renato G. Mazzolini
The Caucasian Slave Race.  (pages 163-186)Sara Figal
Analogy of Analogy.  (pages 187-215)Penelope Deutscher
Reproducing Difference.  (pages 217-235)Staffan Müller-Wille
Heredity and Hybridity in the Natural History of Kant, Girtanner, and Schelling during the 1790s.  (pages 237-258)Robert Bernasconi
Sexual Polarity in Schelling and Hegel.  (pages 259-281)Alison Stone

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