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Hardcover The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America Book
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ISBN: 1558492844

ISBN13: 9781558492844

The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America

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From Samuel Morton's collection of Native American skulls to William James's writings on the consciousness of lost limbs, this book examines a startling array of artifacts that reflect nineteenth-century thinking about madness, race, and gender. According to Thomas W. Cooley, what unites these seemingly disconnected cultural fragments is the governing model of "psychology," as it was just then coming to be called, that shaped the American understanding...

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