| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Medicine in literature.
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Medicine in literature. |
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Literature and medicine -- History.
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Literature and medicine. |
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History. |
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Gynecology -- Great Britain -- History.
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Gynecology. |
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Great Britain. |
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Gynecology -- Study and teaching -- History.
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Gynecology -- Study and teaching. |
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Obstetrics -- Great Britain -- History.
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Obstetrics. |
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Women's health services -- History.
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Women's health services. |
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Human Body. |
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Medicine in Literature. |
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Women. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Mangham, Andrew, 1979- editor.
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Depledge, Greta, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Female body in medicine and literature. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011 9781846314728 (DLC) 2012358137 (OCoLC)665138350 |
| ISBN |
9781846316289 (electronic book) |
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1846316286 (electronic book) |
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9781781386545 (electronic book) |
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1781386544 (electronic book) |
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9781846314728 (hardback) |
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1846314720 (hardback) |
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