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ISBN: 0823262529

ISBN13: 9780823262526

The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance

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It is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confession and introspection, given that instinct had long been defined in its opposition to self-conscious thought. The Ploy of Instinct ties this paradox to instinct's deployment in conceptualizing governmentality.

Instinct's domain, Frederickson argues, extended well beyond the women, workers, and...

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