A Question of identity : women, science, and literature /
Benjamin, Marina.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,
c1993.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-244) and index.
A question of identity / Marina Benjamin -- Reflections on the history of the science of woman / Sylvana Tomaselli -- Gendered knowledge, gendered minds : women and Newtonianism, 1690-1760 / John Mullan -- The male scientist, man-midwife, and female monster : appropriation and transmutation in Frankenstein / Marie Mulvey Roberts -- The aseptic male obstetrician and the filthy peasant crone : contemporary women writers' accounts of birth / Tess Cosslett -- Conceiving difference : reproductive technology and the construction of identity in two contemporary fictions / Susan Squier -- The gendered ape : early representations of primates in Europe / Londa Schiebinger -- The life cycle of cyborgs / N. Katherine Hayles -- Science and the supernatural in the stories of Margaret Oliphant / Jenni Calder -- "Preaching to the nerves" : psychological disorder in sensation fiction / Sally Shuttleworth.
Women in literature.
Women in science.
Human reproductive technology
Sex differences
Gender identity
Women
Feminism.