The Mangham, Andrew 1979- Depledge, Greta. text bibliography enk Liverpool Liverpool University Press 2011 monographic eng

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231 p. : ill. 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. HKBU library edited by Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge. YT2025 M09 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 Human Body Medicine in Literature Women PR149 F331 2011 9781846314728 1846314720 SDU 110401