The female body in medicine and literature
By: edited by Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781846314728
Subjects: Medicine in literature; History; English literature; Women's health services; Women in literature; Gynecology; History and criticism; Medicine in Literature; Study and teaching; Literature and medicine; Obstetrics; Human body in literature; Human Body; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge; title: 'Difficulties, at present in no Degree clear'd up': the controversial mother, 1600-1800  -- Carolyn D. Williams; title: Monstrous issues: the uterus as riddle in early modern medical texts  -- Lori Schroeder Haslem; title: Surveilling the secrets of the female body: the contest for reproductive authority in the popular press of the seventeenth century  -- Susan C. Staub; title: 'Made in imitation of real women and children':obstetrical machines in eighteenth-century Britain  -- Pam Lieske; title: Transcending the sexed body: reason, sympathy, and 'thinking machines' in the debates over male midwifery  -- Sheena Sommers; title: Emma Martin and the manhandled womb in early Victorian England  -- Dominic Janes; title: Narrating the Victorian vagina: Charlotte Brontë  and the masturbating woman  -- Emma L.E. Rees; title: 'Those parts peculiar to her organization': some observations on the history of pelvimetry, a nearly forgotten obstetric sub-specialty  -- Joanna Grant; title: 'She read on more eagerly, almost breathlessly': Mary Elizabeth Braddon's challenge to medical depictions of female masturbation in The doctor's wife  -- Laurie Garrison; title: Mrs. Robinson's 'Day-book of iniquity': reading bodies of/and evidence in the context of the 1858 Medical Reform Act  -- Janice M. Allan; title: Rebecca's womb: irony and gynaecology in Rebecca  -- Madeleine K. Davies; title: Representations of illegal abortionists in England, 1900-1967  -- Emma L. Jones; title: Afterword: reading history as/and vision -- Karin Lesnik-Oberstein.