The Female Body in Medicine and Literature
Editat de Andrew Mangham, Greta Depledgeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2012
Drawing on a range of texts from the seventeenth century to the present, The Female Body in Medicine and Literature explores accounts of motherhood, fertility, and clinical procedures for what they have to tell us about the development of women’s medicine. The essays here offer nuanced historical analyses of subjects that have received little critical attention, including the relationship between gynecology and psychology and the influence of popular art forms on so-called women’s science prior to the twenty-first century. Taken together, these essays offer a wealth of insight into the medical treatment of women and will appeal to scholars in gender studies, literature, and the history of medicine.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781846318528
ISBN-10: 1846318521
Pagini: 231
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Liverpool University Press
Colecția Liverpool University Press
ISBN-10: 1846318521
Pagini: 231
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Liverpool University Press
Colecția Liverpool University Press
Notă biografică
Andrew Mangham is a lecturer in English at the University of Reading. Greta Depledge is a lecturer at Birkbeck College at the University of London.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction
Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge
2. ‘Difficulties, at present in no Degree clear’d up’: The Controversial Mother, 1600-1800
Carolyn D. Williams
3. Monstrous Issues: The Uterus as Riddle in Early Modern Medical Texts
Lori Schroeder Haslem
4. Surveilling the Secrets of the Female Body: The Contest for Reproductive Authority in the Popular Press of the Seventeenth Century
Susan C. Staub
5. ‘Made in Imitation of Real Women and Children’: Obstetrical Machines in Eighteenth Century Britain
Pam Lieske
6. Transcending the Sexed Body: Reason, Sympathy, and ‘Thinking Machines’ in the Debates over Male Midwifery
Sheena Sommers
7. Emma Martin and the Manhandled Womb in Early Victorian England
Dominic Janes
8. Narrating the Victorian Vagina: Charlotte Brontë and the Masturbating Woman
Emma L. E. Rees
9. ‘Those Parts Peculiar to Her Organization’: Some Observations on the History of Pelvimetry, a Nearly Forgotten Obstetric Sub-speciality
Joanna Grant
10. ‘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
11. Mrs Robinson’s ‘Day-book of Iniquity’: Reading Bodies of/and Evidence in the Context of the 1858 Medical Reform Act
Janice M. Allan
12. Rebecca’s Womb: Irony and Gynaecology in Rebecca
Madeleine K. Davies
13. Representations of Illegal Abortionists in England, 1900-1967
Emma L. Jones
14. Afterword: Reading History as/and Vision
Karín Lesnik-Oberstein
Index
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction
Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge
2. ‘Difficulties, at present in no Degree clear’d up’: The Controversial Mother, 1600-1800
Carolyn D. Williams
3. Monstrous Issues: The Uterus as Riddle in Early Modern Medical Texts
Lori Schroeder Haslem
4. Surveilling the Secrets of the Female Body: The Contest for Reproductive Authority in the Popular Press of the Seventeenth Century
Susan C. Staub
5. ‘Made in Imitation of Real Women and Children’: Obstetrical Machines in Eighteenth Century Britain
Pam Lieske
6. Transcending the Sexed Body: Reason, Sympathy, and ‘Thinking Machines’ in the Debates over Male Midwifery
Sheena Sommers
7. Emma Martin and the Manhandled Womb in Early Victorian England
Dominic Janes
8. Narrating the Victorian Vagina: Charlotte Brontë and the Masturbating Woman
Emma L. E. Rees
9. ‘Those Parts Peculiar to Her Organization’: Some Observations on the History of Pelvimetry, a Nearly Forgotten Obstetric Sub-speciality
Joanna Grant
10. ‘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
11. Mrs Robinson’s ‘Day-book of Iniquity’: Reading Bodies of/and Evidence in the Context of the 1858 Medical Reform Act
Janice M. Allan
12. Rebecca’s Womb: Irony and Gynaecology in Rebecca
Madeleine K. Davies
13. Representations of Illegal Abortionists in England, 1900-1967
Emma L. Jones
14. Afterword: Reading History as/and Vision
Karín Lesnik-Oberstein
Index