~No work is created alone and many years ago when the ideas underpinning this work were taking shape at the University of Adelaide, I was supported in my intellectual growth by Tim Doyle, who gave me his time and critical acumen, all with a generous sense of fun. At the university,...

~The beginnings of a new work feel cartographic to me—navigational,...

~In chapter one, I consider a widespread preoccupation in the long nineteenth century with having or cultivating beauty. I focus on the idea that there is a spatial semiotics of the face, and examine how the face was...

~During the long nineteenth century, varied apparatuses emerged to encourage, cajole, and discipline people to be fitter and more healthy; these gained expression in bodies and among populations; in diverse sites such as homes,...

~In chapter three, my gaze moves out from the body to the dress covering it, the fashions influencing it, and the forces mobilizing it. I reflect on the impulse to reform dress, which was part of the progressive agenda of...

~In chapter four, my aim is to move out from the body to whole populations. I consider and place in collaborative conversation narratives by well-known figures engaged in debates about the decline in the birth rate, the...

~Over the long nineteenth century, one response to the apparent decline of the population was a call to enhance women’s “natural” maternal skills by educating and training them. The call was commonplace and...

~The home was a seedbed in which moral and geopolitical advantage were to take root and, as such, it was enrolled in diverse anatomo-political, biopolitical, and governmental regimes for such ends. Among the most enduring of...

~In August 1880, the Australian Health Society published a story entitled...

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