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This title features essays that explore literary texts in relation to the history of gynaecology and women's surgery. It demonstrates how fiction and medicine have a long-established tradition of looking towards each other for inspiration and elucidation in questions of gender.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mangham, Andrew, 1979- (Editor ), Depledge, Greta (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.
Temas:
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.
Women.
Human Body
Medicine in Literature
Women
Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Littérature et médecine > Histoire.
Gynécologie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Gynécologie > Étude et enseignement > Histoire.
Obstétrique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Femmes.
women (female humans)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
English literature
Gynecology
Gynecology > Study and teaching
Human body in literature
Literature and medicine
Medicine in literature
Obstetrics
Women in literature
Women's health services
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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