Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century

by Elizabeth Freeman

Book Overview

In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of discipline as a regime that yoked the human body to time, Freeman shows how time became a social and sensory means by which people assembled into groups in ways that resisted disciplinary forces. She tracks temporalized bodies across many entangled regimes--religion, secularity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478006358
• ISBN13: 9781478006350
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"