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Title The female body in medicine and literature / edited by Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction / Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge -- 'Difficulties, at present in no Degree clear'd up': the controversial mother, 1600-1800 / Carolyn D. Williams -- Monstrous issues: the uterus as riddle in early modern medical texts / Lori Schroeder Haslem -- Surveilling the secrets of the female body: the contest for reproductive authority in the popular press of the seventeenth century / Susan C. Staub -- 'Made in imitation of real women and children':obstetrical machines in eighteenth-century Britain / Pam Lieske -- Transcending the sexed body: reason, sympathy, and 'thinking machines' in the debates over male midwifery / Sheena Sommers -- Emma Martin and the manhandled womb in early Victorian England / Dominic Janes -- Narrating the Victorian vagina: Charlotte Brontë and the masturbating woman / Emma L.E. Rees -- 'Those parts peculiar to her organization': some observations on the history of pelvimetry, a nearly forgotten obstetric sub-specialty / Joanna Grant -- '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 -- Mrs. Robinson's 'Day-book of iniquity': reading bodies of/and evidence in the context of the 1858 Medical Reform Act / Janice M. Allan -- Rebecca's womb: irony and gynaecology in Rebecca / Madeleine K. Davies -- Representations of illegal abortionists in England, 1900-1967 / Emma L. Jones -- Afterword: reading history as/and vision / Karin Lesnik-Oberstein
Summary This title features essays that explore literary texts in relation to the history of gynaecology and women's surgery. It demonstrates how fiction and medicine have a long-established tradition of looking towards each other for inspiration and elucidation in questions of gender
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject English literature -- History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Human body in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Literature and medicine -- History
Gynecology -- Great Britain -- History
Gynecology -- Study and teaching -- History
Obstetrics -- Great Britain -- History
Women's health services -- History
Women.
Human Body
Medicine in Literature
Women
women (female humans)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Women
English literature
Gynecology
Gynecology -- Study and teaching
Human body in literature
Literature and medicine
Medicine in literature
Obstetrics
Women in literature
Women's health services
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Mangham, Andrew, 1979- editor.
Depledge, Greta, editor.
LC no. 2012358137
ISBN 9781846316289
1846316286
9781781386545
1781386544
9781786948700
1786948702