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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795333503321

Autore

Koerber Amy (Amy Lunn)

Titolo

From hysteria to hormones : a rhetorical history / / Amy Koerber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

0-271-08155-4

0-271-08157-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric

Disciplina

613.04244

Soggetti

Rhetoric

Hormones - History

Hysteria - History

Women - Health and hygiene - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Hormones and hysteria : a rhetorical topology -- Hysteria from ancient texts until the nineteenth century : the womb as topological space -- Charcot's circus : nineteenth-century science of hysteria as a moment of stasis -- Stasis unsettled : the early twentieth-century rise of endocrinology -- Topology of sex difference : a long history of men saying outrageous things about women's reproductive organs -- Illuminating women : metaphor and movement after centuries of "groping in the dark" -- This is your [female] brain on hormones : enthymeme in contemporary discourse -- From hysteria to hormones.

Sommario/riassunto

"Examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word 'hormone' and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women's health"--Provided by publisher.