Generating bodies and gendered selves : the rhetoric of reproduction in early modern England / Eve Keller.
"Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves examines the textured interrelations between medical writing about generation and childbirth - what we now call reproduction - and emerging notions of selfhood in early modern England. At a time when medical texts first appeared in English in large numbers...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2007]
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| Series: | In vivo (Seattle, Wash.).
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| Summary: | "Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves examines the textured interrelations between medical writing about generation and childbirth - what we now call reproduction - and emerging notions of selfhood in early modern England. At a time when medical texts first appeared in English in large numbers and the first signs of modern medicine were emerging both in theory and in practice, medical discourse of the body was richly interwoven with cultural concerns." "Through close readings of a wide range of English-language medical texts from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, from learned anatomies and works of observational embryology to popular books of physic and commercial midwifery manuals, Keller looks at the particular assumptions about bodies and selves that medical language inevitably enfolds."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | "A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book.". |
| Physical Description: | xi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0295986417 9780295986418 |