A Question of identity
Subtitle: women, science, and literature
By: edited by Marina Benjamin.
Contributors: Benjamin, Marina.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Women in literature.; Women in science.; Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects.; Sex differences -- Social aspects.; Gender identity -- Social aspects.; Women -- Identity.; Feminism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-244) and index.
Table of contents: title: A question of identity / Marina Benjamin; title: Reflections on the history of the science of woman / Sylvana Tomaselli; title: Gendered knowledge, gendered minds : women and Newtonianism, 1690-1760 / John Mullan; title: The male scientist, man-midwife, and female monster : appropriation and transmutation in Frankenstein / Marie Mulvey Roberts; title: The aseptic male obstetrician and the filthy peasant crone : contemporary women writers' accounts of birth / Tess Cosslett; title: Conceiving difference : reproductive technology and the contruction of identity in two contemporary fictions / Susan Squier; title: The gendered ape : early representations of primates in Europe / Londa Schiebinger; title: The life cycle of cyborgs / N. Katherine Hayles; title: Science and the supernatural in the stories of Margaret Oliphant / Jenni Calder; title: "Preaching to the nerves" : psychological disorder in sensation fiction / Sally Shuttleworth.