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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778914003321

Autore

Keller Eve <1960->

Titolo

Generating bodies and gendered selves [[electronic resource] ] : the rhetoric of reproduction in early modern England / / Eve Keller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, 2007

ISBN

0-295-99076-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

In vivo

Disciplina

618.1/00942

Soggetti

Gynecology - England - History

Human reproduction - England - History

Obstetrics - England - History

Gynecology - Philosophy

Medicine - England - History

Self (Philosophy) - England - History

Self (Philosophy) in literature - History

England Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

On either side of the early modern: posthuman and premodern bodies and selves -- Subjectified parts and supervenient selves: rewriting galenism in Crooke's microcosmographia -- Fixing the female: books of practical physic for women -- Making up for losses: the workings of gender in Harvey's De Generatione Animalium -- Embryonic individuals: mechanism, embryology, and modern man -- The masculine subject of touch: case histories from the birthing room.