LEADER 04292nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910172226903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-75204-9 010 $a9786612752049 010 $a1-4008-2145-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821457 035 $a(CKB)1000000000007352 035 $a(EBL)617278 035 $a(OCoLC)681193698 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000450870 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11268148 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000450870 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10444490 035 $a(PQKB)10793020 035 $a(DE-B1597)446061 035 $a(OCoLC)979754367 035 $a(OCoLC)984665877 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821457 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617278 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000007352 100 $a19940502d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSocial bodies $escience, reproduction, and Italian modernity /$fDavid G. Horn 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1994 215 $a1 online resource (203 p.) 225 1 $aPrinceton studies in culture/power/history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-03720-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 159-181) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tCHAPTER I. Technologies of Reproduction --$tCHAPTER II. Social Bodies --$tCHAPTER III. The Power of Numbers --$tCHAPTER IV. Governing Reproduction --$tCHAPTER V. The Sterile City --$tCHAPTER VI. Beyond Public and Private --$tNotes --$tReferences Cited --$tIndex 330 $aUsing as his example post-World War I Italy and the government's interest in the size, growth rate, and "vitality" of its national population, David Horn suggests a genealogy for our present understanding of procreation as a site for technological intervention and political contestation. Social Bodies looks at how population and reproductive bodies came to be the objects of new sciences, technologies, and government policies during this period. It examines the linked scientific constructions of Italian society as a body threatened by the "disease" of infertility, and of women and men as social bodies--located neither in nature nor in the private sphere, but in that modern domain of knowledge and intervention carved out by statistics, sociology, social hygiene, and social work. Situated at the intersection of anthropology, cultural studies, and feminist studies of science, the book explores the interrelated factors that produced the practices of reason we call social science and social planning. David Horn draws on many sources to analyze the discourses and practices of "social experts," the resistance these encountered, and the often unintended effects of the new objectification of bodies and populations. He shows how science, while affirming that maternity was part of woman's "nature," also worked to remove reproduction from the domain of the natural, making it an object of technological intervention. This reconstitution of bodies through the sciences and technologies of the social, Horn argues, continues to have material consequences for women and men throughout the West. 410 0$aPrinceton studies in culture/power/history. 606 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects$zItaly 606 $aHuman body$xSymbolic aspects$zItaly 606 $aFertility, Human$xGovernment policy$zItaly 606 $aFascism and culture$zItaly 606 $aFascism and women$zItaly 606 $aHuman reproductive technology$zItaly$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aItaly$xPolitics and government$y1914-1945 615 0$aHuman body$xSocial aspects 615 0$aHuman body$xSymbolic aspects 615 0$aFertility, Human$xGovernment policy 615 0$aFascism and culture 615 0$aFascism and women 615 0$aHuman reproductive technology$xHistory 676 $a304.6/32 686 $aLB 40255$2rvk 700 $aHorn$b David G.$f1958-$01684839 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910172226903321 996 $aSocial bodies$94203897 997 $aUNINA