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

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