Gendered pathologies
Subtitle: the female body and biomedical discourse in the nineteenth-century English novel
By: Sondra M. Archimedes.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Body, Human, in literature; Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Sex role in literature; Medicine in literature; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-196) and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2003.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Derangements of the uterus and other mysteries; title: Science, gender, and the nineteenth century; title: Towards a discourse of perversion : female deviance, sibling incest, and the bourgeois family in Dickens's Hard times; title: Women, savages, and the body of Africa : Rider Haggard's She as biological narrative; title: Shapes like our own selves hideously multiplied : Sue Bridehead, reproduction, and the disease of modern civilization; title: Afterword : female deviance in the twenty-first century : from Martha Stewart to Lynndie England.