Generating Bodies And Gendered Selves
The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England (In Vivo)
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Word Count
62,000 words, Guess
Page Count
248 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10315164M
- ISBN-139780295986418
- ISBN-100295986417
- OCLC Control Number69672824
- Library of Congress Control Number2006016948
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- Goodreads3395812
- LibraryThing3049010
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- LCCSB
Description
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.
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