A Delicate Choreography : : Kinship Practices and Incest Discourses in the West since the Renaissance.

• Author: Sabean, David.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/München/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2023.; {copy}2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1092 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Cover Image for Vol. 1 -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Text Boxes -- Introduction -- Section I: Baroque Europe: The Bible Tells Me So -- Chapter 1 Introit: The Wife's Sister -- Chapter 2 The Culture of Law -- Chapter 3 How to Read the Book -- Chapter 4 Cultural Meanings of Blood in the Baroque -- Chapter 5 Lineage and Alliance in the Seventeenth Century -- Section II: From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Sentimental Journeys -- Chapter 1 Kinship: The New Alliance System -- Chapter 2 Introduction to the Brother/Sister Imaginary -- Chapter 3 Moral Sentiment: A New Language of Cultural Meaning and Foundation for Law -- Chapter 4 The Search for the Same: Familial/Familiar -- Section III: Fin-et-Début-de-Siècle Europe and America -- Chapter 1 Introduction to the Problem of the Mother and Son -- Chapter 2 The Biology of Motherhood -- Chapter 3 Making Kin around 1900: The Nature of Nurture -- Chapter 4 Kinship Structures at the Turn of the Century -- Intermezzo -- Incest Becomes a Biological Problem -- Section IV: Postwar Kinning: The Fall (After a Brief Rise) of the Nuclear Family -- Chapter 1 Kinship and the Nuclear Family -- Chapter 2 The Family Spun in a Web of Power -- Chapter 3 Introduction to the Father-Daughter Problematic -- Chapter 4 Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy as Hegemonic Discourses -- Coda. Brother/Sister Redivivus -- Age of Genetics, Age of Siblings, 1995-2020 -- Epilogue -- Near of Kin -- Figure Credits -- Bibliography -- Index.