LEADER 04473nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910456912403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78138-654-4 010 $a1-84631-628-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000000033396 035 $a(EBL)688330 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000536620 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12200750 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536620 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10552327 035 $a(PQKB)10259165 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781846316289 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127312 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC688330 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781386545 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL688330 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10466801 035 $a(OCoLC)890980851 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000033396 100 $a20100909d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe female body in medicine and literature$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Andrew Mangham, Greta Depledge 210 $aLiverpool $cLiverpool University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84631-852-1 311 $a1-84631-472-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aHalf-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 Britain 327 $a6 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 Bronte? 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 Wife 327 $a11 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; Index 330 $aThe 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 t 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aMedicine in literature 606 $aLiterature and medicine$xHistory 606 $aGynecology$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aGynecology$xStudy and teaching$xHistory 606 $aObstetrics$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aWomen's health services$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aMedicine in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and medicine$xHistory. 615 0$aGynecology$xHistory. 615 0$aGynecology$xStudy and teaching$xHistory. 615 0$aObstetrics$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen's health services$xHistory. 676 $a809.9 701 $aMangham$b Andrew$f1979-$0900454 701 $aDepledge$b Greta$0995678 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456912403321 996 $aThe female body in medicine and literature$92281550 997 $aUNINA