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Art, Sex and Eugenics - Corpus Delecti (Paperback)
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Art, Sex and Eugenics - Corpus Delecti (Paperback)
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This book reveals how art and sex promoted the desire for the
genetically perfect body. Its eight chapters demonstrate that
before eugenics was stigmatized by the Holocaust and Western
histories were sanitized of its prevalence, a vast array of Western
politicians, physicians, eugenic societies, family leagues, health
associations, laboratories and museums advocated, through verbal
and visual cultures, the breeding of 'the master race'. Each
chapter illustrates the uncanny resemblances between models of
sexual management and the perfect eugenic body in America, Britain,
France, Communist Russia and Nazi Germany both before and after the
Second World War. Traced back to the eighteenth-century anatomy
lesson, the perfect eugenic body is revealed as athletic, hygienic,
'pure-blooded' and sexually potent. This paradigm is shown to have
persisted as much during the Bolshevik sexual revolution, as in
democratic nations and fascist regimes. Consistently posed naked,
these images were unashamedly exhibitionist and voyeuristic.
Despite stringent legislation against obscenity, not only were
these images commended for soliciting the spectator's gaze but also
for motivating the spectator to act out their desire. An
examination of the counter-archives of Maori and African Americans
also exposes how biologically racist eugenics could be equally
challenged by art. Ultimately this book establishes that art
inculcated procreative sex with the Corpus Delecti - the delectable
body, healthy, wholesome and sanctioned by eugenicists for
improving the Western race.
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