The Resource The female body in medicine and literature, edited by Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge
The female body in medicine and literature, edited by Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages)
- Contents
-
- '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
- Introduction
- '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
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781846316289
- Label
- The female body in medicine and literature
- Title
- The female body in medicine and literature
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge
- Subject
-
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- English literature
- English literature -- History and criticism
- Great Britain
- Gynecology
- Gynecology -- Great Britain -- History
- Gynecology -- Study and teaching
- Gynecology -- Study and teaching | History
- History
- Human Body
- Human body in literature
- Human body in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Literature and medicine
- Literature and medicine -- History
- Medicine in Literature
- Medicine in literature
- Medicine in literature
- Obstetrics
- Obstetrics -- Great Britain -- History
- Women
- Women in literature
- Women in literature
- Women's health services
- Women's health services -- History
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- E7B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1979-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
-
- Mangham, Andrew
- Depledge, Greta
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- English literature
- Women in literature
- Human body in literature
- Medicine in literature
- Literature and medicine
- Gynecology
- Gynecology
- Obstetrics
- Women's health services
- Human Body
- Medicine in Literature
- Women
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- English literature
- Gynecology
- Gynecology
- Human body in literature
- Literature and medicine
- Medicine in literature
- Obstetrics
- Women in literature
- Women's health services
- Great Britain
- Label
- The female body in medicine and literature, edited by Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- '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
- Introduction
- '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
- 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
- Control code
- ocn732956425
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781846316289
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt5p6bjx
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)732956425
- Label
- The female body in medicine and literature, edited by Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- '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
- Introduction
- '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
- 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
- Control code
- ocn732956425
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781846316289
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt5p6bjx
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)732956425
Subject
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- English literature
- English literature -- History and criticism
- Great Britain
- Gynecology
- Gynecology -- Great Britain -- History
- Gynecology -- Study and teaching
- Gynecology -- Study and teaching | History
- History
- Human Body
- Human body in literature
- Human body in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Literature and medicine
- Literature and medicine -- History
- Medicine in Literature
- Medicine in literature
- Medicine in literature
- Obstetrics
- Obstetrics -- Great Britain -- History
- Women
- Women in literature
- Women in literature
- Women's health services
- Women's health services -- History
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