| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

Slave to the Body: Black Bodies, White No-Bodies, and the Regulative Dualism of Body-Politics in the Old South. By Lars Schroeder. (Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2003. 491 pp. $57.95, ISBN 3-631-39912-X.)
Written in the idiom of Michel Foucault, Slave to the Body is an extended (almost five hundred pages) commentary on the "body-politics" of the antebellum South.	1
Foucault's work, although deeply historical, emanates from outside the discipline of history and remains controversial among historians—beloved to some, anathema to others. Slave to the Body will probably not make any converts. The book appears to be a direct dissertation-to-monograph product, untouched by editor, designer, copy editor, or proofreader. The print is small. There is no index. Typographical and grammatical errors come in bunches. To make things worse, while written in (or translated into?) clumsy but mostly passable English, the book uses the German typographical convention of placing the opening quotation mark at the base of the word and the close at the head, and quotes are turned the wrong way: ,,like so". Needless to say, this is distracting. Another symptom of editorial neglect: some quotations from Foucault are presented here in German translation!	. . .

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