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Autore |
Koerber Amy (Amy Lunn) |
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From hysteria to hormones : a rhetorical history / / Amy Koerber |
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University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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ISBN |
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0-271-08155-4 |
0-271-08157-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Rhetoric |
Hormones - History |
Hysteria - History |
Women - Health and hygiene - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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. |
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