Randi Davenport
Biographic Data
| ID | 3990874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randi Davenport |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randi |
| FAMILY NAME | Davenport |
| SIGNATURE | DAVENPORT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Alma College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Thomas Malthus and maternal bodies politic: Gender, Race, and Empire
This essay explores the uneasy fit of representations of the Victorian monarchy and maternal metaphors of state with Malthusian doctrine and the debates over colonial initiatives and population pressures. Malthus's work on the principle of population authorized a potent mid-Victorian narrative which viewed the exalted body of the mother – and, by metaphoric homology, that of the state – as diseased, corrupt, and in imminent danger of putrefaction…
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Thomas Malthus and maternal bodies politic: Gender, Race, and Empire
This essay explores the uneasy fit of representations of the Victorian monarchy and maternal metaphors of state with Malthusian doctrine and the debates over colonial initiatives and population pressures. Malthus's work on the principle of population authorized a potent mid-Victorian narrative which viewed the exalted body of the mother – and, by metaphoric homology, that of the state – as diseased, corrupt, and in imminent danger of putrefaction…
Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Australian History and Society (1 works) · Body politic (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works) · Demography (1 works) · Doctrine (1 works) · Empire (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (1 works)