LEADER 06932nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910824054303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78138-654-4 010 $a1-84631-628-6 024 7 $a10.3828/9781846314728 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||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe female body in medicine and literature /$fedited by Andrew Mangham, Greta Depledge 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLiverpool $cLiverpool University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). 311 $a1-84631-852-1 311 $a1-84631-472-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $gIntroduction /$rAndrew Mangham and Greta Depledge --$t'Difficulties, at present in no Degree clear'd up': the controversial mother, 1600-1800 /$rCarolyn D. Williams --$tMonstrous issues: the uterus as riddle in early modern medical texts /$rLori Schroeder Haslem --$tSurveilling the secrets of the female body: the contest for reproductive authority in the popular press of the seventeenth century /$rSusan C. Staub --$t'Made in imitation of real women and children':obstetrical machines in eighteenth-century Britain /$rPam Lieske --$tTranscending the sexed body: reason, sympathy, and 'thinking machines' in the debates over male midwifery /$rSheena Sommers --$tEmma Martin and the manhandled womb in early Victorian England /$rDominic Janes --$tNarrating the Victorian vagina: Charlotte Bronte? and the masturbating woman /$rEmma L.E. Rees --$t'Those parts peculiar to her organization': some observations on the history of pelvimetry, a nearly forgotten obstetric sub-specialty /$rJoanna Grant --$t'She read on more eagerly, almost breathlessly': Mary Elizabeth Braddon's challenge to medical depictions of female masturbation in The doctor's wife /$rLaurie Garrison --$tMrs. Robinson's 'Day-book of iniquity': reading bodies of/and evidence in the context of the 1858 Medical Reform Act /$rJanice M. Allan --$tRebecca's womb: irony and gynaecology in Rebecca /$rMadeleine K. Davies --$tRepresentations of illegal abortionists in England, 1900-1967 /$rEmma L. Jones --$tAfterword: reading history as/and vision /$rKarin Lesnik-Oberstein. 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 towards each other for inspiration and elucidation in questions of gender. Medical textbooks and pamphlets have consistently cited fictional plots and characterisations as a way of communicating complex or 'sensitive' ideas. Essays explore historical accounts of clinical procedures, the relationship between gynaecology and psychology, and cultural conceptions of motherhood, fertility, and the female organisation through a broad range of texts including Henry More's Pre-Existency of the Soul (1659), Charlotte Bronte?'s Villette (1855), and Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues (1998). The Female Body in Medicine and Literature raises important theoretical questions on the relationship between popular culture, literature, and the growth of women's medicine and will be required reading for scholars in gender studies, literary studies and the history of medicine. This collection explores the complex intersections between literature and the medical treatment of women between 1600 and 2000. Employing a range of methodologies, it furthers our understanding of the development of women's medicine and comments on its wider cultural ramifications. Although there has been an increase in critical studies of women's medicine in recent years, this collection is a key contributor to that field because it draws together essays on a wide range of new topics from varying disciplines. It features, for instance, studies of motherhood, fertility, clinical procedure, and the relationship between gynaecology and psychology. Besides offering essays on subjects that have received a lack of critical attention, the essays presented here are truly interdisciplinary; they explore the complex links between gynaecology, art, language, and philosophy, and underscore how popular art forms have served an important function in the formation of 'women's science' prior to the twenty-first century. This book also demonstrates how a number of high-profile controversies were taken up and reworked by novelists, philosophers, and historians. 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