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020 _a9781846314728
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040 _aSDU
050 0 0 _aPR149
_bF331 2011
245 0 4 _aThe female body in medicine and literature /
_cedited by Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge.
260 _aLiverpool :
_bLiverpool University Press,
_c2011.
300 _a 231 p. :
_bill.
505 0 0 _rAndrew Mangham and Greta Depledge --
_t'Difficulties, at present in no Degree clear'd up': the controversial mother, 1600-1800 /
_rCarolyn D. Williams --
_tMonstrous issues: the uterus as riddle in early modern medical texts /
_rLori Schroeder Haslem --
_tSurveilling the secrets of the female body: the contest for reproductive authority in the popular press of the seventeenth century /
_rSusan C. Staub --
_t'Made in imitation of real women and children':obstetrical machines in eighteenth-century Britain /
_rPam Lieske --
_tTranscending the sexed body: reason, sympathy, and 'thinking machines' in the debates over male midwifery /
_rSheena Sommers --
_tEmma Martin and the manhandled womb in early Victorian England /
_rDominic Janes --
_tNarrating the Victorian vagina: Charlotte Brontë and the masturbating woman /
_rEmma L.E. Rees --
_t'Those parts peculiar to her organization': some observations on the history of pelvimetry, a nearly forgotten obstetric sub-specialty /
_rJoanna Grant --
_t'She read on more eagerly, almost breathlessly': Mary Elizabeth Braddon's challenge to medical depictions of female masturbation in The doctor's wife /
_rLaurie Garrison --
_tMrs. Robinson's 'Day-book of iniquity': reading bodies of/and evidence in the context of the 1858 Medical Reform Act /
_rJanice M. Allan --
_tRebecca's womb: irony and gynaecology in Rebecca /
_rMadeleine K. Davies --
_tRepresentations of illegal abortionists in England, 1900-1967 /
_rEmma L. Jones --
_tAfterword: reading history as/and vision /
_rKarin Lesnik-Oberstein.
505 0 0 _rHKBU library
518 _aYT2025 M09
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_xHistory and criticism.
_9192141
650 0 _aWomen in literature.
650 0 _aHuman body in literature.
650 0 _aMedicine in literature.
_9180347
650 0 _aLiterature and medicine
_xHistory.
_9198544
650 0 _aGynecology
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory.
_9198545
650 0 _aGynecology
_xStudy and teaching
_xHistory.
_9198546
650 0 _aObstetrics
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory.
_9198547
650 0 _aWomen's health services
_xHistory.
650 1 2 _aHuman Body.
650 2 2 _aMedicine in Literature.
_9180347
650 2 2 _aWomen.
700 1 _aMangham, Andrew,
_d1979-
_9198548
700 1 _aDepledge, Greta.
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