Reproducing women
Subtitle: medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China
By: Yi-Li Wu.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520260689
Subjects: Childbirth -- China -- History; Women -- Medical care -- History; Reproductive Medicine -- history -- China; Gynecology -- history -- China; History, Modern 1601- -- China; Metaphor -- China; China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-1912
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Medicine for women" and the literate medical tradition; title: Amateur as arbiter : popular publishing and fuke manuals; title: The palace of the child : function and structure in the female body; title: An uncertain harvest : pregnancy and miscarriage; title: "Born like a lamb" : the discourse of cosmologically resonant childbirth; title: To generate and transform : strategies for postpartum health; title: Epilogue: body, gender, and medical legitimacy.