Public Privates – Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum de Terri Kapsalis

Public Privates – Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum

Terri Kapsalis

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 feb 1997

The quintessential examination of women, gynaecology is not simply the study of women's bodies, but also serves to define them. This book considers the public exposure of female 'privates' in the performance of the pelvic examination. It focuses on the ways in which women and their bodies have been treated by the medical establishment.

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"Health educator, performer, and scholar Terri Kapsalis gives us a series of brilliantly performed readings of gynecology's complex private and public lives in medical texts, history books, clinics, popular film, and performance art. More than just cultural critique, "Public Privates" is a feminist guide to locating our own agency as active performers in the multilayered practices and discourses devoted to women's sexual and reproductive health."--Lisa Cartwright, author of "Screening the Body"

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The quintessential examination of women, gynecology is not simply the study of women's bodies, but also serves to define and constitute them. From J. Marion Sims's surgical experiments on unanesthetized slave women in the mid-19th century to the use of cadavers and prostitutes to teach medical students gynecological techniques, Kapsalis focuses on the ways in which women and their bodies have been treated by the medical establishment. 34 photos.