Title From hysteria to hormones : a rhetorical history / Amy Koerber.

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Description	1 online resource (xxi, 239 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	RSA STR : the RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric
	RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.
Summary	"Examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word 'hormone' and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women's health"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Hormones and hysteria : a rhetorical topology -- Hysteria from ancient texts until the nineteenth century : the womb as topological space -- Charcot's circus : nineteenth-century science of hysteria as a moment of stasis -- Stasis unsettled : the early twentieth-century rise of endocrinology -- Topology of sex difference : a long history of men saying outrageous things about women's reproductive organs -- Illuminating women : metaphor and movement after centuries of "groping in the dark" -- This is your [female] brain on hormones : enthymeme in contemporary discourse -- From hysteria to hormones.
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Subject	Women -- Health and hygiene -- History.
	Women -- Health and hygiene.
	History.
	Hormones -- History.
	Hormones.
	Hysteria -- History.
	Hysteria.
	Rhetoric.
	Rhetoric.
Genre/Form	History.
	Electronic books.
Subject	Women.
	Womyn.
ISBN	9780271081557 (electronic book)
	0271081554 (electronic book)
	9780271080857
	027108085X
	9780271080864
	0271080868