Picturing women's health
By: edited by Francesca Scott, Kate Scarth and Ji Won Chung
Series: Warwick series in the humanities -- no. 4; Warwick series in the humanities -- no. 4.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781315654508
Subjects: Women; Health and hygiene; History; Sources
Notes: "First published 2014 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Sensibility and good health in Charlotte Smith's Ethelinde / Joseph Morrissey; title: 2. Amazonian fashions : Lady Delacour's (re)dress in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda / Andrew McInnes; title: 3. Transforming the body politic: food reform and feminism in nineteenth-century Britain / Sarah Richardson; title: 4. Stagnation of air and mind : picturing trauma and miasma in Charlotte Bront©±'s Villette / Alexandra Lewis; title: 5. The iconography of anorexia nervosa in the long nineteenth century / Susannah Wilson; title: 6. Kate Marsden's leper project : on sledge and horseback with an outcast missionary nurse / Tabitha Sparks; title: 7. Constructs of female insanity at the Fin de Si©·cle : the Lawn Hospital, Lincoln, 1882-1902 / Katherine Ford; title: 8. The fitness of the female medical student, 1895-1910 / Claire Brock; title: 9. Unstable adolescence/unstable literature? Managing British girls' health around 1900 / Hilary Marland.