Fixing Women : : The Birth of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Britain and America / / Marcia D. Nichols

• Autore: Nichols Marcia D. <1978->
• Pubblicazione: San Francisco, CA : , : University of California, Medical Humanities Consortium, , [2021]; ©[2021]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 pages): : illustrations
• Soggetto topico: Obstetrics; Midwifery; Gynecology; Gynecologie - Histoire; Obstetrique - Histoire; Sages-femmes - États-Unis - Histoire - 18e siecle; Sages-femmes - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire - 18e siecle; Midwives - United States - History - 18th century; Gynecology - History; Obstetrics - History; Midwifery - United States - History - 18th century; Midwifery - Great Britain - History - 18th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States; Great Britain
• Soggetto genere / forma: History; Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Man-Midwife as picaresque hero: William Smellie's Treatise on the Theory and Art of Midwifery -- ; 2. Anatomizing "an Hairy Monster": William Smellie's A Set of Anatomical Tables -- ; 3. Domesticating the man-midwife: Thomas Denman and the accoucheur of feeling -- ; 4. The American hero-accoucheur and medical education: Samuel Bard's A Compendium of Midwifery.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Using the tools of book history, media studies, and literary theory, Fixing Women examines the construction of a masculinist professional selfhood in male-authored midwifery textbooks during the long eighteenth-century. Ordinary birth events were cast as archetypal struggles between life and death that required the intervention of the "Hero-Accoucheur," who fought valiently to rescue the pregnant damsel-in-distress endangered by her own body. By casting themselves as literary heroes, medical men could present themselves as altruistic, disinterested professionals. Yet under the mask of altruism and scientific curiosity lurked a self-interested, hegemonic masculinity that justified the emerging medical specialties of obstetrics and gynecology--specialties that required the homogenization of white, bourgeois women as "the Sex." By charting the develpment of and struggles of obstetrical discourse, Fixing Women sheds light on the gender politics of a biomedical model and practice that continues to reverberate in our own time."--Page 4 of cover.
• Titolo autorizzato: Fixing Women
• ISBN: 1-7355423-0-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910882998403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Perspectives in medical humanities.