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The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex and Science in the Nineteenth Century Book Launch

Kyla Schuller’s The Biopolitics of Feeling is a landmark new work in feminist and queer studies. It unearths how sentimentalism, often dismissed as a mode of feminized and excessive emotion, actually worked to establish modern power’s hierarchies of race and sex. The book exposes how ideas about the sensory and affective capacities of the body lie at the heart of modern ideas of race and sex difference. It reveals the surprisingly long roots of homonormative defenses of queer lives that argued for queer acceptance on the basis of white supremacist ideas in the 19th century, as well as how groups that biopower cast into death fought back against modern racisms.











When: Sat., Feb. 17, 2018 at 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where: Bluestockings
172 Allen St.

Price: Free
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Kyla Schuller’s The Biopolitics of Feeling is a landmark new work in feminist and queer studies. It unearths how sentimentalism, often dismissed as a mode of feminized and excessive emotion, actually worked to establish modern power’s hierarchies of race and sex. The book exposes how ideas about the sensory and affective capacities of the body lie at the heart of modern ideas of race and sex difference. It reveals the surprisingly long roots of homonormative defenses of queer lives that argued for queer acceptance on the basis of white supremacist ideas in the 19th century, as well as how groups that biopower cast into death fought back against modern racisms.

Buy tickets/get more info now