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The ivory leg in the ebony cabinet

madness, race, and gender in Victorian America

by Thomas Cooley

2001 302 pages eng

"From Samuel Morton's collection of Native American skulls to William James's writings on the consciousness of lost limbs, this book examines a startling array of artifacts that reflect nineteenth-century thinking about madness, race, and gender. According to Thomas W. Cooley, what unites these seem…

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