TY - BOOK AU - Mangham,Andrew AU - Depledge,Greta TI - The female body in medicine and literature SN - 9781846314728 AV - PR149 F331 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Liverpool PB - Liverpool University Press KW - English literature KW - History and criticism KW - Women in literature KW - Human body in literature KW - Medicine in literature KW - Literature and medicine KW - History KW - Gynecology KW - Great Britain KW - Study and teaching KW - Obstetrics KW - Women's health services KW - Human Body KW - Medicine in Literature KW - Women N1 - 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; YT2025 M09 ER -