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The female body in medicine and literature [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andrew Mangham, Greta Depledge
| The female body in medicine and literature [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andrew Mangham, Greta Depledge |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ManghamAndrew <1979->
DepledgeGreta |
| 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. |
| ISBN |
1-78138-654-4
1-84631-628-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456912403321 |
| Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The female body in medicine and literature / / edited by Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge [[electronic resource]]
| The female body in medicine and literature / / edited by Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 820.93522 |
| 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 |
| ISBN |
1-78138-654-4
1-84631-628-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ; Introduction / Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge -- 'Difficulties, at present in no Degree clear'd up': the controversial mother, 1600-1800 / Carolyn D. Williams -- Monstrous issues: the uterus as riddle in early modern medical texts / Lori Schroeder Haslem -- Surveilling the secrets of the female body: the contest for reproductive authority in the popular press of the seventeenth century / Susan C. Staub -- 'Made in imitation of real women and children':obstetrical machines in eighteenth-century Britain / Pam Lieske -- Transcending the sexed body: reason, sympathy, and 'thinking machines' in the debates over male midwifery / Sheena Sommers -- Emma Martin and the manhandled womb in early Victorian England / Dominic Janes -- Narrating the Victorian vagina: Charlotte Brontë and the masturbating woman / Emma L.E. Rees -- 'Those parts peculiar to her organization': some observations on the history of pelvimetry, a nearly forgotten obstetric sub-specialty / Joanna Grant -- 'She read on more eagerly, almost breathlessly': Mary Elizabeth Braddon's challenge to medical depictions of female masturbation in The doctor's wife / Laurie Garrison -- Mrs. Robinson's 'Day-book of iniquity': reading bodies of/and evidence in the context of the 1858 Medical Reform Act / Janice M. Allan -- Rebecca's womb: irony and gynaecology in Rebecca / Madeleine K. Davies -- Representations of illegal abortionists in England, 1900-1967 / Emma L. Jones -- Afterword: reading history as/and vision / Karin Lesnik-Oberstein. |
| Altri titoli varianti | The Female Body in Medicine & Literature |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781377603321 |
| Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The female body in medicine and literature / / edited by Andrew Mangham, Greta Depledge
| The female body in medicine and literature / / edited by Andrew Mangham, Greta Depledge |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 820.93522 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ManghamAndrew <1979->
DepledgeGreta |
| 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 |
| ISBN |
1-78138-654-4
1-84631-628-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ; Introduction / Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge -- 'Difficulties, at present in no Degree clear'd up': the controversial mother, 1600-1800 / Carolyn D. Williams -- Monstrous issues: the uterus as riddle in early modern medical texts / Lori Schroeder Haslem -- Surveilling the secrets of the female body: the contest for reproductive authority in the popular press of the seventeenth century / Susan C. Staub -- 'Made in imitation of real women and children':obstetrical machines in eighteenth-century Britain / Pam Lieske -- Transcending the sexed body: reason, sympathy, and 'thinking machines' in the debates over male midwifery / Sheena Sommers -- Emma Martin and the manhandled womb in early Victorian England / Dominic Janes -- Narrating the Victorian vagina: Charlotte Brontë and the masturbating woman / Emma L.E. Rees -- 'Those parts peculiar to her organization': some observations on the history of pelvimetry, a nearly forgotten obstetric sub-specialty / Joanna Grant -- 'She read on more eagerly, almost breathlessly': Mary Elizabeth Braddon's challenge to medical depictions of female masturbation in The doctor's wife / Laurie Garrison -- Mrs. Robinson's 'Day-book of iniquity': reading bodies of/and evidence in the context of the 1858 Medical Reform Act / Janice M. Allan -- Rebecca's womb: irony and gynaecology in Rebecca / Madeleine K. Davies -- Representations of illegal abortionists in England, 1900-1967 / Emma L. Jones -- Afterword: reading history as/and vision / Karin Lesnik-Oberstein. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824054303321 |
| Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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