What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, Michelle Murphy provocatively describes the twentieth-century rise of infrastructures of calculation and experiment aimed at governing population for the sake of national economy, pinpointing the spread of a potent biopolitical logic: some must not be born so that others might live more prosperously. Resituating the history of postcolonial neoliberal technique in expert circuits between the United States and Bangladesh, Murphy traces the methods and imaginaries through which family planning calculated lives not worth living, lives not worth saving, and lives not worth being born. The resulting archive of thick data transmuted into financialized “Invest in a Girl” campaigns that reframed survival as a question of human capital. The book challenges readers to reject the economy as our collective container and to refuse population as a term of reproductive justice.

Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes new directions in the theory and practice of historical research. The editors provide an introduction analyzing the origins and implications of the cultural turn and its postmodernist critiques of knowledge. Essays by leading historians and historical sociologists reflect on the uses of cultural theories and show both their promise and their limitations. The afterword by Hayden White provides an assessment of the trend toward culturalism by one its most influential proponents. "Beyond the Cultural Turn" offers fresh theoretical readings of the most persistent issues created by the cultural turn and provocative empirical studies focusing on diverse social practices, the uses of narrative, and the body and self as critical junctures where culture and society intersect.

A sweeping study of sex, power, and knowledge in modern Japan, this ambitious work provides the first full-scale, detailed history of the formation and application of a science of sex from Meiji through mid-twentieth century Japan. Tracing the different uses made of sexual knowledge, the book brings to light the complex and subtle interplay between sexuality, scientific expertise, social control, and empire building.
Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Frühstück analyzes the conflicts and negotiations that aimed at producing a normative sexuality. She shows how the "colonization" of sex was enacted through debates over several issues: the necessity of sex education; the prevention of venereal diseases; the problem of masturbation and its alleged consequences; the legalization of birth control; the fight against prostitution; the emergence of eugenics; and, eventually, the implementation of "racial hygiene" policies. In Colonizing Sex we see how these struggles were driven by rhetoric consisting of cries for defense, liberation, and truth—emphasizing in every historical moment how the sexual body has been, and is, part of much broader currents in political, cultural, and social life.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Erecting a Modern Health Regime
2. Debating Sex Education
3. Sexology for the Masses
4. Claiming the Fetus
5. Breeding the Japanese "Race"
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

This unique work examines the role played by sexuality in the historical encounter between China and the West. Distinguished historian D. E. Mungello focuses especially on Western homosexuals who saw China as a place of escape from the homophobia of Europe and North America. His groundbreaking study traces the lives of two dozen men, many previously unknown to have same-sex desire, who fled to China and in the process influenced perceptions of Chinese culture to this day. Their individual stories encompass flight from homophobia in their home countries, the erotic attraction of Chinese boy-actors, friendships with Chinese men, intellectual connections with the Chinese, and the reorientation of Western aesthetics toward China.
Mungello explores historical attitudes and the atmosphere of oppression toward men with same-sex desire as he recounts the intensification of repression of queers in Europe and North America in the late nineteenth-century. He shows how China became a place of escape, a homosexual “land of Oz” where men could flee from the closets of their minds. Some traveled to China and lived there; others immersed themselves in Chinese culture at a distance. Most established long-term friendships and acted as cultural intermediaries who opened the aesthetic range of Western culture to a new sense of beauty and a fresh source of inspiration for poets, artists, and dramatists. Their “boys”—Chinese males whose services were available at low cost as messengers, rickshaw pullers, guides, cooks, entertainers, escorts, and prostitutes—were transformed into a universal metaphor of Chinese culture that lingers to this day. Indeed, outside men’s range of relationships, intellectual and physical, have had a profound impact in shaping the modern Western conception of China.

1730年代的巴黎，一群印刷业学徒发起了一场翻天覆地的屠猫仪式，他们折磨然后杀死所有他们能够找到的猫，包括他们师母的宠物猫。这种残酷的仪式何以在他们眼中如此“好笑”？十八世纪法国人的文化有珍奇的一面，也有寻常的一面，作者一一召唤而出，藉以邀请读者思索这一类的问题：为什么巴黎的一群工匠觉得猫大屠杀那幺有趣？玩笑如何在旧制度的工人间发酵？《猫大屠杀》揭露一个文化的万花筒视野，既熟悉又奇妙。作者在书中提供了治疗文化震荡所不可或缺而且入口难忘的一帖药剂。尽管这是一本学术著述，在作者以带有强烈文学趣味的随笔体例写作的策略下，读者绝对可以获得一次既有益又有趣的阅读经历。

In a book that moves between philosophy and history, and with lasting significance for both, Arnold Davidson elaborates a powerful new method for considering the history of concepts and the nature of scientific knowledge, a method he calls "historical epistemology." He applies this method to the history of sexuality, with important consequences for our understanding of desire, abnormality, and sexuality itself.

Twenty-five years ago one could list by name the tiny number of multiple personalities recorded in the history of Western medicine, but today hundreds of people receive treatment for dissociative disorders in every sizeable town in North America. Clinicians, backed by a grassroots movement of patients and therapists, find child sexual abuse to be the primary cause of the illness, while critics accuse the 'MPD' community of fostering false memories of childhood trauma.Here the distinguished philosopher Ian Hacking uses the MPD epidemic and its links with the contemporary concept of child abuse to scrutinize today's moral and political climate, especially our power struggles about memory and our efforts to cope with psychological injuries. What is it like to suffer from multiple personality? Most diagnosed patients are women: why does gender matter? How does defining an illness affect the behaviour of those who suffer from it? And, more generally, how do systems of knowledge about kinds of people interact with the people who are known about? Answering these and similar questions, Hacking explores the development of the modern multiple personality movement.He then turns to a fascinating series of historical vignettes about an earlier wave of multiples, people who were diagnosed as new ways of thinking about memory emerged, particularly in France, toward the end of the nineteenth century. Fervently occupied with the study of hypnotism, hysteria, sleepwalking, and fugue, scientists of this period aimed to take the soul away from the religious sphere. What better way to do this than to make memory a surrogate for the soul and then subject it to empirical investigation? Made possible by these nineteenth-century developments, the current outbreak of dissociative disorders is embedded in new political settings."Rewriting the Soul" concludes with a powerful analysis linking historical and contemporary material in a fresh contribution to the archaeology of knowledge. As Foucault once identified a politics that centers on the body and another that classifies and organizes the human population, Hacking has now provided a masterful description of the politics of memory: the scientizing of the soul and the wounds it can receive.

What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of military or capitalist revolutions, Philip S. Gorski argues instead for the importance of a disciplinary revolution unleashed by the Reformation. By refining and diffusing a variety of disciplinary techniques and strategies, such as communal surveillance, control through incarceration, and bureaucratic office-holding, Calvin and his followers created an infrastructure of religious governance and social control that served as a model for the rest of Europe—and the world.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Body and Soul: Calvinism, Discipline, and State Power in Early Modern Europe
2. Disciplinary Revolution from below in the Low Countries
3. Disciplinary Revolution from above in Brandenburg-Prussia
4. Social Disciplining in Comparative Perspective
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of Cambodia. But as the French physicians ventured beyond their colonial enclaves, they found themselves negotiating with the plurality of Cambodian cultural practices relating to health and disease. These negotiations were marked by some success, a great deal of misunderstanding, and much failure. Bringing together colorful historical vignettes, social and anthropological theory, and quantitative analyses, "Mixed Medicines" examines these interactions between the Khmer, Cham, and Vietnamese of Cambodia and the French, documenting the differences in their understandings of medicine and revealing the unexpected transformations that occurred during this period - for both the French and the indigenous population. A compelling social history, "Mixed Medicines" will be welcomed by anyone interested in the globalization of scientific and medical practices.

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.

Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them.
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Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling.
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For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives"
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Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds.
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Focault interprets his writtings about sexuality, politics and punishment.

In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

以中国中心的意识，罗芙芸揭示了卫生如何在19、20世纪成为中国的现代性表述中的紧要因素。她集中于一个中文概念“卫生”，作为贯穿时空和多样性的线索，并将其置于天津复杂的通商口岸环境之中。在19世纪末以前，卫生——被译为“卫生的”、“清洁的”、“健康”或“公共卫生”——与之相关的是饮食方、冥想和秘制方药。本书揭示了随着暴力帝国主义的到来，卫生的意义是如何从中国人的宇宙观转变为包含了诸如国家主权、科学实验、身体净化和民族适应性等方面的概念。外国人和中国的精英们往往认为，中国人在这些方面都有所缺乏。这项令人耳目一新的研，究向我们展示了卫生怎样在中国的现代性中成为一个矛盾的概念想象中的外国典范是其集中表现，同时也正是这些卫生的主要建造者一手造成了中国的缺陷。
罗芙芸描述了天津孤立的军事、政治事件与卫生变迁的交汇点——空间的安排、水的供应、对身体的关注、对排泄物的处理。本书展示了围绕着天津的卫生变迁，各自为政的帝国主义势力如何应对，同时，在帝国主义者的目标与现代化精英的目标之间，搭建起一条重要的纽带。本书的时间跨度从鸦片战争直至朝鲜战争，作者解释了卫生的现代性不仅改变了一座城市，还塑造了中国人对于在立足于现代世界的卫生要求的认知。
序言
导言
第一章 “包治百病”：20世纪前的卫生
第二章 天津的卫生与疾病
第三章 医学的遭遇与分流
第四章 中国通商口岸的卫生翻译
第五章 日本明治时期卫生翻译的转变
第六章 缺陷和主权：天津被占领期间的卫生现代性，1900—1902
第七章 可见与不可见：城市景观和卫生的边界
第八章 卫生和现代性的渴望
第九章 日本人在天津的细菌管理
第十章 细菌战和爱国卫生
结语
参考书目

古人曾沐浴而朝，斋戒沐浴以祀上帝，这是一种隆重的礼仪，孔子赞赏的学生曾点甚至把洗澡作为一种至美的人生境界，”莫春者，春服既成，冠者五六人，童子六七人，浴乎沂，风乎舞零，咏而归。“在古代希腊人的生活中，运动的紧张和洗澡的松弛，人们交替感受，并从中发现了人体无以伦比的美妙。在古罗马的豪华浴场，洗澡是古罗马欢宴人生的一种方式，荒淫无度，夜夜笙歌的背景是那些雄伟的建筑艺术，正是它们验证着“宏伟即罗马”的千古名言。
人们以沐浴为礼仪，以沐浴为生活，甚至还曾以沐浴为禁忌。……当过去的历史随风貌远去，我们在遗存的图像中盘桓，那曾经的洗澡已演绎成为一个悠长的故事，关于生活，也关于艺术。

本书主要内容包括：译名之争与早期的《圣经》中译、医务传道方法与“中国医务传道会”的早期活动、基督教传教士在澳门的早期文化活动略论等。

《基督教与中国社会研究入门》作者对大学人文学科基本教育和专业训练三个阶段的理解是“给大学生常识，给硕士生方法，给博士生视野”。如今大学越来越多，条件不一，水平参差，指导者的路数不同，不同学校培养研究生的方法和标准也不同，有些指导教师似乎对这三种教育没有区分，有时候把研究生当作大学生，塞上一堆“常识”便草草了事，使得早已掌握了基本知识的研究生要么对课程失去兴趣，要么以为“学术”不过如此，“研究”就是重复叙述;有时候又把大学生当作研究生，基本常识还不具备时，便传授种种“偏方”“秘方”，使大学生早早学会了出偏锋、用怪招。因此，我们策划编辑这一套“入门手册”，让作者特别针对刚刚完成大学学业进入硕士生时期的人编写，意在引导他们知道初步的“研究方法”，以区别大学阶段的“常识学习”。
这套学术研究入门手册的编撰者，都是“学有所成”而且是“术有专攻”的学者，专业各有偏重，领域宽窄不一，但是，我想在他们撰写的这本入门书中，都必然包括“历史”、“方法”和“视野”这三方面。所谓“历史”，就是了解本领域的历史即学术史，知道在自己之前，前辈和同行已经做了些什么，是怎么做的，因此可以“踏在前人搭好的桥板上”，不必重起炉灶“而今迈步从头越”，也不能掩耳盗铃装作自己是“垦荒”或“开拓”。所谓“方法”，就是选择本领域目前最通行和最有效的方法，一一加以解说，并选择若干最好的典范论著，让阅读者“见贤思齐”，哪怕是“照猫画虎”，因为最初的研究不妨有一些模仿，当然模仿的应当是最高明的杰作，这才是“取法乎上”。所谓“视野”，就是开列出中国和国外在本领域最基本的和最深入的论著，使得研究生不至于“拣到篮子便是菜”，反而漏掉了必读的经典，形成引用参考文献的“随意”。这一部分可能包括了超出硕士生，甚至可以提供给博士生使用的、中外文的“进阶书目”，通过参考文献提供更广阔的学术视野，让阅读者通过简单的论著名录，知道世界上的同行在做些什么。我想，大学教授最重要的责任，不是拔苗助长地呵护几个早早脱颖而出的杰出学生，而是齐头并进地保证进入研究领域的普通学生，这套入门手册不是针对天才而是保证底线的，为了让硕士生尽快超越大学本科阶段的学习习惯，了解最一般的研究途径，开始具有个性的思考，建立学术研究的角度和立场，形成遵守规范的研究习惯，我觉得“历史”、“方法”和“视野”是每一个合格的研究生都必须具备的。
这套研究入门手册的编撰和出版，要感谢复旦大学研究生院、复旦大学出版社和复旦大学文史研究院，也要感谢参与编写的各位杰出学者热情参与，他们都是很忙碌的人，但是他们能够放下手头的工作，慷慨承诺撰写这套入门书，是因为几乎所有的参加者和支持者，都不约而同地意识到，学术方法的传递和学术薪火的延续，比什么都重要。

对于基督教兴起原因及过程的研究，西方历来的著作可以说是汗牛充栋。本书在其中别具一格，这不仅因为作者所掌握的充分资料文献，更在于作者采用了社会学的分析方法，包括理性选择理论、社会网络、动态人口模型、社会流行病学、宗教经济模式等等。正如作者所言：“我不是一个历史学家，我是一个社会学家”历史材料在这里，被更有解释力的理论所运用，呈现出与传统的历史研究所截然不同的状态。本书在宗教学界曾引起很大的反响，其全新的思考方式，“不仅富见地，也是向传统观点提出持挑战”。

主要讲述了晚明由“三大案”引发的党争，魏忠贤兴起及袁崇焕之奋战。自张居正去世后，便无人敢管万历，为争国本、查妖书、打闷棍，他与大臣展开拉锯战，三十年不上朝。东林党却因此发展壮大，为把持朝政，与齐、楚、浙三党明争暗斗，借国本之争，扶持明光、熹宗二帝即位，成功掌握政权。魏忠贤以平民出身，利用熹宗昏庸，又傍上皇帝乳母客氏，与东林党展开对决。在外，援朝抗日战争后，明防御线转至辽东。没落贵族之后李成梁打蒙古、灭女真，成为一代枭雄，却养虎为患，努尔哈赤借机兴起，统一后金。为抗金、守城、夺失地，在帝师孙承宗的带领下，袁崇焕从一介文人成长为边疆大将，坚守孤城，最终击败努尔哈赤。