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Invalid women : figuring feminine illness in American fiction and culture, 1840-1940 /
In this imaginative work of cultural and literary history, Diane Price Herndl examines the tensions found in literary representations of feminine illness. Using medical texts, art, and advertising as well as major works of fiction, Price Herndl argues that such representations were not "natural...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Reading Illness. Invalid Ideology. Culture, Dialogue, and Discourse. Invalid Women
- Ch. 1. Defining the Feminine/Defining the Invalid: Women and Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Women's Health in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Physicians and Women. Medical Discourse, Cultural Definition
- Ch. 2. The Threat of Invalidism: Responsibility and Reward in Domestic and Feminist Fiction. Fiction Figuring Women. Invalid Mothers. The Feminist Invalid
- Ch. 3. (Super) "Natural" Invalidism: Male Writers and the Mind/Body Problem. The Domestic and the Romantic (Super)Natural. The Mind/Body Problem. Making Natural Art of Women. The Natural Pharmakon in the Garden. A Return to the Garden: The Healthy Invalid. The "Feverish Poet"
- Ch. 4. The Writing Cure: Women Writers and the Art of Illness. Mental Healing at the Turn of the Century. The Writing Cure. The Art of Illness. Happy Endings
- Ch. 5. Fighting (with) Illness: Success and the Invalid Woman. Success and the Invalid Woman. Success, Class, and Health. Failing Health. Invalid Men and the Ideology of "Separate Spheres"
- Ch. 6. Economics of Illness: Working the Invalid Woman. Willpower. Clinical Ethics and the Invalid Economy. Conclusion: Invalidism and the Female Body Politic. The Political Representation of Feminine Illness.