The female body in medicine and literature /
edited by Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge.
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.
- 231 p. : ill.
'Difficulties, at present in no Degree clear'd up': the controversial mother, 1600-1800 / Monstrous issues: the uterus as riddle in early modern medical texts / Surveilling the secrets of the female body: the contest for reproductive authority in the popular press of the seventeenth century / 'Made in imitation of real women and children':obstetrical machines in eighteenth-century Britain / Transcending the sexed body: reason, sympathy, and 'thinking machines' in the debates over male midwifery / Emma Martin and the manhandled womb in early Victorian England / Narrating the Victorian vagina: Charlotte Brontë and the masturbating woman / 'Those parts peculiar to her organization': some observations on the history of pelvimetry, a nearly forgotten obstetric sub-specialty / 'She read on more eagerly, almost breathlessly': Mary Elizabeth Braddon's challenge to medical depictions of female masturbation in The doctor's wife / Mrs. Robinson's 'Day-book of iniquity': reading bodies of/and evidence in the context of the 1858 Medical Reform Act / Rebecca's womb: irony and gynaecology in Rebecca / Representations of illegal abortionists in England, 1900-1967 / Afterword: reading history as/and vision / Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge -- Carolyn D. Williams -- Lori Schroeder Haslem -- Susan C. Staub -- Pam Lieske -- Sheena Sommers -- Dominic Janes -- Emma L.E. Rees -- Joanna Grant -- Laurie Garrison -- Janice M. Allan -- Madeleine K. Davies -- Emma L. Jones -- Karin Lesnik-Oberstein. HKBU library
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9781846314728 1846314720
English literature--History and criticism. Women in literature. Human body in literature. Medicine in literature. Literature and medicine--History. Gynecology--History.--Great Britain Gynecology--Study and teaching--History. Obstetrics--History.--Great Britain Women's health services--History. Human Body. Medicine in Literature. Women.