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2014

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Emily S. Rosenberg and Shanon Fitzpatrick (Editors)

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31 juillet 2014

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9780822376712

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English

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Body and Nation interrogates the connections among the body, the nation, and the world in twentieth-century U.S. history. The idea that bodies and bodily characteristics are heavily freighted with values that are often linked to political and social spheres remains underdeveloped in the histories of America's relations with the rest of the world. Attentive to diverse state and nonstate actors, the contributors provide historically grounded insights into the transnational dimensions of biopolitics. Their subjects range from the regulation of prostitution in the Philippines by the U.S. Army to Cold War ideals of American feminine beauty, and from "body counts" as metrics of military success to cultural representations of Mexican migrants in the United States as public health threats. By considering bodies as complex, fluctuating, and interrelated sites of meaning, the contributors to this collection offer new insights into the workings of both soft and hard power.Contributors. Frank Costigliola, Janet M. Davis, Shanon Fitzpatrick, Paul A. Kramer, Shirley Jennifer Lim, Mary Ting Yi Lui, Natalia Molina, Brenda Gayle Plummer, Emily S. Rosenberg, Kristina Shull, Annessa C. Stagner, Marilyn B. Young

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

31 juillet 2014

EAN13

9780822376712

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

body and nation

american encounters/global inter actions A series edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Emily S. Rosenberg

This series aims to stimulate critical perspectives and fresh interpretive frameworks for scholarship on the history of the imposing global pres-ence of the United States. Its primary concerns include the deployment and contestation of power, the construction and deconstruction of cul-tural and political borders, the ﬂuid meanings of intercultural encoun-ters, and the complex interplay between the global and the local.Amer-ican Encountersseeks to strengthen dialogue and collaboration between historians of U.S. international relations and area studies specialists. The series encourages scholarship based on multiarchival historical research. At the same time, it supports a recognition of the represen-tational character of all stories about the past and promotes critical inquiry into issues of subjectivity and narrative. In the process,American Encountersstrives to understand the context in which meanings related to nations, cultures, and political economy are continually produced, challenged, and reshaped.

body and nation

the global realm of u.s. body politics in the t wentieth century

Edited by Emily S. Rosenberg & Shanon Fitzpatrick

Duke University Press Durham and London 2014

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper∞ Text designed by Chris Crochetière, BW&A Books, Inc. Typeset in Quadraat by BW&A Books, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Body and nation : the global realm of U.S. body politics in the twentieth century / edited by Emily S. Rosenberg and Shanon Fitzpatrick. pages cm—(American encounters/global interactions) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn978-0-8223-5675-2 (pbk : alk. paper) isbn978-0-8223-5664-6 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Human body—Political aspects—United States. 2. United States— Politics and government—20th century. 3. United States—Foreign relations—20th century.i. Rosenberg, Emily S., 1944–ii. Fitzpatrick, Shanon.iii. Series: American encounters/global interactions. e743.b614 2014 327.73009'04—dc23 2014005678

“Making ‘Brown Babies’: Race and Gender after World War II” was originally published inWindow On Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945–1988,edited by Brenda Gayle Plummer. Copyright ©2003 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher.

Cover art:Dichotomy(detail), Gil Bruvel. Stainless steel. Courtesy of the artist.

Dedicated to Norman Rosenberg and Ruthann and Christopher Meyer

contents

introduction emily s. rosenberg and shanon fitzpatrick1 one Colonial Crossings: Prostitution, Disease, and the Boundaries of Empire during the Philippine-American War |paul a. kr amer 17

two Moral, Purposeful, and Healthful: The World of Child’s Play, Bodybuilding, and Nation-Building at the American Circus |janet m. davis 42 three Making Broken Bodies Whole in a Shell-Shocked World | annessa c. stagner 61 four Physical Culture’s World of Bodies: Transnational Participatory Pastiche and the Body Politics of America’s Globalized Mass Culture |shanon fitzpatrick 83

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“The Most Beautiful Chinese Girl in the World”: Anna May Wong’s Transnational Racial Modernity | shirley jennifer lim 109

Roosevelt’s Body and National Power | fr ank costigliola 125

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seven Making “Brown Babies”: Race and Gender after World War II |brenda gayle plummer 147 eight Regulating Borders and Bodies: U.S. Immigration and Public Health Policy |natalia molina 173 nine The American Look: The Nation in the Shape of a Woman |emily s. rosenberg 189

ten Sammy Lee: Narratives of Asian American Masculinity and Race in Decolonizing Asia |mary ting yi lui 209 eleven Counting the Bodies in Vietnam |marilyn b. young 230 twelve “Nobody Wants These People”: Reagan’s Immigration Crisis and the Containment of Foreign Bodies | kristina shull 241 epilogue When the Body Disappears |emily s. rosenberg and shanon fitzpatrick 264

bibliography contributors index 321

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introduction

emily s. rosenberg and shanon fitzpatrick

Bodies attract and disgust; they are the most frequent objects of personal thoughts, desires, and actions. Moreover the anthropomor-phic analogy contained in the termbody politic,an analogy that has run throughout Western political and social traditions, most famously to Plato, illustrates the larger political and social meanings of bodies.Body and Nation: The Global Realm of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Centurybrings together scholarship on the body with historical research on U.S. international and transnational relationships. It interrogates the con-nections among the body, the nation, and the world in twentieth-century U.S. history. For the past thirty years theoretical investigations centering on the body, a topic once considered relevant largely to the biological sciences, 1 have inﬂuenced most disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Foucault’s exploration of biopolitics and biopower initially propelled interdisciplinary investigations of the disciplining and regulation of 2 social groups and individuals. Subsequent theoretical and historical studies have deepened our understanding of how the meanings and markings of bodies have come to be culturally constituted. The work of Joan Scott, Judith Butler, Anne Fausto-Sterling, and others, for exam-ple, explored how attributes of bodies (both individual and social) take shape in relation to particular circumstances that create a materiality 3 emanating from reiterated cultural performances. Scholars have also assessed the body’s relationship to issues of personal identity, concep-tions of social order, war making, modes of production and consump-tion, and norms of physical and social health.

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