Making of the Modern Body

Catherine Gallagher is the Eggers Professor of English Literature and has taught at Berkeley 1980. Her teaching and research focus on the British novel and cultural history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

• IntroductionTHOMAS LAQUEUROrgasm, Generation, and the Politicsof Reproductive BiologyLONDA SCHIEBINGERSkeletons in the Closet: The FirstIllustrations of the Female Skeleton inEighteenth-Century AnatomyCATHERINE GALLAGHERThe Body Versus the Social Bodyin the Works of Thomas Malthusand Henry MayhewD. A. MILLERCage aux folles: Sensation and Gender inWilkie Collins's The Woman in WhiteMARY POOVEY"Scenes of an Indelicate Character":The Medical "Treatment"of Victorian WomenLAURA ENGELSTEINMorality and the Wooden Spoon: RussianDoctors View Syphilis, Social Class, andSexual Behavior, 1890-1905ALAIN CORBINCommercial Sexuality in NineteenthCenturyFrance: A System of Imagesand RegulationsCHRISTINE BUCI-GLUCKSMANNCatastrophic Utopia: The Feminineas Allegory of the ModernList of Contributors