04473nam 2200805Ia 450 991045691240332120200520144314.01-78138-654-41-84631-628-6(CKB)2550000000033396(EBL)688330(SSID)ssj0000536620(PQKBManifestationID)12200750(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536620(PQKBWorkID)10552327(PQKB)10259165(UkCbUP)CR9781846316289(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127312(MiAaPQ)EBC688330(UkCbUP)CR9781781386545(Au-PeEL)EBL688330(CaPaEBR)ebr10466801(OCoLC)890980851(EXLCZ)99255000000003339620100909d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe female body in medicine and literature[electronic resource] /edited by Andrew Mangham, Greta DepledgeLiverpool Liverpool University Press20111 online resource (241 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84631-852-1 1-84631-472-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 'Difficulties, at present in no Degree clear'd up': The Controversial Mother, 1600-1800; 3 Monstrous Issues: The Uterus as Riddle in Early Modern Medical Texts; 4 Surveilling the Secrets of the Female Body: The Contest for Reproductive Authority in the Popular Press of the Seventeenth Century; 5 'Made in Imitation of Real Women and Children': Obstetrical Machines in Eighteenth-Century Britain6 Transcending the Sexed Body: Reason, Sympathy, and 'Thinking Machines' in the Debates over Male Midwifery7 Emma Martin and the Manhandled Womb in Early Victorian England; 8 Narrating the Victorian Vagina: Charlotte Brontë and the Masturbating Woman; 9 'Those Parts Peculiar to Her Organization': Some Observations on the History of Pelvimetry, a Nearly Forgotten Obstetric Sub-speciality; 10 'She read on more eagerly, almost breathlessly': Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Challenge to Medical Depictions of Female Masturbation in The Doctor''s Wife11 Mrs Robinson's 'Day-book of Iniquity': Reading Bodies of/and Evidence in the Context of the 1858 Medical Reform Act12 Rebecca's Womb: Irony and Gynaecology in Rebecca; 13 Representations of Illegal Abortionists in England, 1900-1967; 14 Afterword: Reading History and/as Vision; IndexThe Female Body in Medicine and Literature features essays that explore literary texts in relation to the history of gynaecology and women's surgery. Gender studies and feminist approaches to literature have become busy and enlightening fields of enquiry in recent times, yet there remains no single work that fully analyses the impact of women's surgery on literary production or, conversely, ways in which literary trends have shaped the course of gynaecology and other branches of women's medicine. This book will demonstrate how fiction and medicine have a long-established tradition of looking tEnglish literatureHistory and criticismWomen in literatureHuman body in literatureMedicine in literatureLiterature and medicineHistoryGynecologyGreat BritainHistoryGynecologyStudy and teachingHistoryObstetricsGreat BritainHistoryWomen's health servicesHistoryElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Women in literature.Human body in literature.Medicine in literature.Literature and medicineHistory.GynecologyHistory.GynecologyStudy and teachingHistory.ObstetricsHistory.Women's health servicesHistory.809.9Mangham Andrew1979-900454Depledge Greta995678MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456912403321The female body in medicine and literature2281550UNINA