Gender and disease in literary and medical cultures
By: edited by Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Iris M. Heid
Series: Regensburger Beiträge zur Gender-Forschung -- Band 7; Regensburger Beiträge zur Gender-Forschung -- Bd. 7.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9783825363765
Subjects: Gender identity in literature; Diseases in literature; Sex differences in literature; Sex discrimination in medicine; Medicine; History; Medicine in Literature; Gender Identity; History of Medicine; Sex Characteristics; Sexism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

In English, with two contributions in German.
Table of contents: title: Gender and disease in literary and medical cultures  -- Anne-Julia Zwierlein and Iris M. Heid; title: Some aspects of medical research on sex and gender differences : risky lifestyle or risky genes?  -- Julika Loss, Miriam Banas, Andrea Baessler, Edith Reuschel, Marina Kreutz, Sven Schmalfuss and Iris M. Heid; title: Krankheit als Heil? Genderperspektiven auf das Opfer der Gesundheit in der Literatur des Mittelalters  -- Edith Feistner; title: Soulless animals? Some Renaissance discussions concerning women's immaterial parts  -- Dorothea Heitsch; title: Fashionable disease and gender in the long eighteenth century  -- Clark Lawlor; title: "Disastrous birth-nights" : childbed and child-birth in the nineteenth-century novel. Reflections on gender and medicalization  -- Felix Sprang; title: "The texture of her nerves and the palpitation of her heart" : vocation, hysteria, and the 'surplus female' in nineteenth-century literature and medical discoures  -- Anne-Julia Zwierlein; title: "Killing no murder" : puerperal insanity and infanticide in late-Victorian British literature  -- Anna Farkas; title: Of he-nurses and she-doctors : gendered accounts of yellow fever in postbellum American literature  -- Ingrid Gessner; title: "You half-baked Lazarus" : masculinity and the maimed body in Sean O'Casey's The silver tassie  -- Martin Decker; title: Quantifying desire, qualifying disease. Gendered images of sexual addiction in Spanish cinema of Pedro Almodóvar, Julio Medem, and Valérie Tasso  -- Ralf Junkerjüngen; title: Gender and medical realism in the poetry of Donald Hall  -- Katharina Boehm; title: Ein richtiger Indianer? Kranke Jungen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur  -- Anita Schilcher; title: Picture disease - performing disease -- Barbara Oettl.