The female body in medicine and literature / edited by Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge.
| Call Number | 820.93561 |
| Title | The female body in medicine and literature / edited by Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2019). |
| Contents | 'Difficulties, at present in no Degree clear'd up': the controversial mother, 1600-1800 / Monstrous issues: the uterus as riddle in early modern medical texts / Surveilling the secrets of the female body: the contest for reproductive authority in the popular press of the seventeenth century / 'Made in imitation of real women and children':obstetrical machines in eighteenth-century Britain / Transcending the sexed body: reason, sympathy, and 'thinking machines' in the debates over male midwifery / Emma Martin and the manhandled womb in early Victorian England / Narrating the Victorian vagina: Charlotte Brontë and the masturbating woman / 'Those parts peculiar to her organization': some observations on the history of pelvimetry, a nearly forgotten obstetric sub-specialty / 'She read on more eagerly, almost breathlessly': Mary Elizabeth Braddon's challenge to medical depictions of female masturbation in The doctor's wife / Mrs. Robinson's 'Day-book of iniquity': reading bodies of/and evidence in the context of the 1858 Medical Reform Act / Rebecca's womb: irony and gynaecology in Rebecca / Representations of illegal abortionists in England, 1900-1967 / Afterword: reading history as/and vision / |
| Summary | Contrary to what Simone de Beauvoir famously argued in 1949, men have not lived without knowing the burdens of their sex. Though men may have been elevated to cultural positions of strength and privilege, it has not been without intense scrutiny of their biological functions. Investigations of male potency and the 'ability to perform' have long been mainstays of social, political, and artistic discourse and have often provoked spirited and partisan declarations on what it means to be a man. This interdisciplinary collection considers the tensions that have developed between the historical privilege often ascribed to the male and the vulnerabilities to which his body is prone. Andrew Mangham and Daniel Lea's introduction illustrates how with the dawn of modern medicine during the Renaissance there emerged a complex set of languages for describing the male body not only as a symbol of strength, but as flesh and bone prone to illness, injury and dysfunction. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, the essays consider the critical ways in which medicine's interactions with literature reveal vital clues about the ways sex, gender, and identity are constructed through treatments of a range of 'pathologies' including deformity, venereal disease, injury, nervousness, and sexual difference. The relationships between male medicine and ideals of potency and masculinity are searchingly explored through a broad range of sources including African American slave fictions, southern gothic, early modern poetry, Victorian literature, and the Modern novel. |
| Added Author | Mangham, Andrew, 1979- editor. Lea, Daniel, editor. |
| Subject | English literature History and criticism. WOMEN IN LITERATURE. Human body in literature. Medicine in literature. Literature and medicine History. Gynecology Great Britain History. Gynecology Study and teaching History. Obstetrics Great Britain History. Women's health services History. |
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| Summary | Contrary to what Simone de Beauvoir famously argued in 1949, men have not lived without knowing the burdens of their sex. Though men may have been elevated to cultural positions of strength and privilege, it has not been without intense scrutiny of their biological functions. Investigations of male potency and the 'ability to perform' have long been mainstays of social, political, and artistic discourse and have often provoked spirited and partisan declarations on what it means to be a man. This interdisciplinary collection considers the tensions that have developed between the historical privilege often ascribed to the male and the vulnerabilities to which his body is prone. Andrew Mangham and Daniel Lea's introduction illustrates how with the dawn of modern medicine during the Renaissance there emerged a complex set of languages for describing the male body not only as a symbol of strength, but as flesh and bone prone to illness, injury and dysfunction. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, the essays consider the critical ways in which medicine's interactions with literature reveal vital clues about the ways sex, gender, and identity are constructed through treatments of a range of 'pathologies' including deformity, venereal disease, injury, nervousness, and sexual difference. The relationships between male medicine and ideals of potency and masculinity are searchingly explored through a broad range of sources including African American slave fictions, southern gothic, early modern poetry, Victorian literature, and the Modern novel. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2019). |
| Contents | 'Difficulties, at present in no Degree clear'd up': the controversial mother, 1600-1800 / Monstrous issues: the uterus as riddle in early modern medical texts / Surveilling the secrets of the female body: the contest for reproductive authority in the popular press of the seventeenth century / 'Made in imitation of real women and children':obstetrical machines in eighteenth-century Britain / Transcending the sexed body: reason, sympathy, and 'thinking machines' in the debates over male midwifery / Emma Martin and the manhandled womb in early Victorian England / Narrating the Victorian vagina: Charlotte Brontë and the masturbating woman / 'Those parts peculiar to her organization': some observations on the history of pelvimetry, a nearly forgotten obstetric sub-specialty / 'She read on more eagerly, almost breathlessly': Mary Elizabeth Braddon's challenge to medical depictions of female masturbation in The doctor's wife / Mrs. Robinson's 'Day-book of iniquity': reading bodies of/and evidence in the context of the 1858 Medical Reform Act / Rebecca's womb: irony and gynaecology in Rebecca / Representations of illegal abortionists in England, 1900-1967 / Afterword: reading history as/and vision / |
| Subject | English literature History and criticism. WOMEN IN LITERATURE. Human body in literature. Medicine in literature. Literature and medicine History. Gynecology Great Britain History. Gynecology Study and teaching History. Obstetrics Great Britain History. Women's health services History. |
| Multimedia |