Literary anatomies
Subtitle: women's bodies and health in literature
By: Delese Wear and Lois LaCivita Nixon.
Contributors: Nixon, Lois LaCivita.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; Women -- United States -- Health and hygiene -- History; Literature and medicine -- United States; Women and literature -- United States; Body, Human, in literature; Medicine in literature; Women in literature
Description: This book shows how imaginative literature brings women's medical experiences back to lived moments in living bodies, where readers can, perhaps, better understand what it feels like to be someone else. The authors provide four sections that discuss birth, abortion, miscarriage, and fertility; breast cancer, middle age, menopause, and hysterectomy; and aging.

While the focus is on twentieth-century North American women, a particular emphasis is placed on the diversity of women's experiences within that time and culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-145) and index.