Quand le sexe incarne la race : le corps noir dans l'imaginaire médical français (1800-1950)

From the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, the body of African people became, for French doctors, an object of study in a context where racial taxonomy and colonization grew. Black women in Africa, and especially among the Hottentots and Bushmen of southern Africa, seeme...

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Main Author: Delphine Peiretti-Courtis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UMR 5136- France, Amériques, Espagne – Sociétés, Pouvoirs, Acteurs (FRAMESPA) 2016-09-01
Series:Les Cahiers de Framespa
Subjects:
sex
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/framespa/4021