The female body in medicine and literature [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andrew Mangham, Greta Depledge

• Pubblicazione: Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.9
• Soggetto topico: English literature - History and criticism; Women in literature; Human body in literature; Medicine in literature; Literature and medicine - History; Gynecology - Great Britain - History; Gynecology - Study and teaching - History; Obstetrics - Great Britain - History; Women's health services - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ManghamAndrew <1979-> DepledgeGreta
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Britain ; 6 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 Wife ; 11 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
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The female body in medicine and literature
• ISBN: 1-78138-654-4; 1-84631-628-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456912403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II