Generating bodies and gendered selves : the rhetoric of reproduction in early modern England / Eve Keller.
- Keller, Eve, 1960-
- Date:
- [2007], ©2007
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Publication/Creation
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2007], ©2007.
Physical description
xi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Contributors
Notes
"A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book."
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-238) and index.
Contents
On either side of the early modern: posthuman and premodern bodies and selves -- Subjectified parts and supervenient selves: rewriting galenism in Crooke's microcosmographia -- Fixing the female: books of practical physic for women -- Making up for losses: the workings of gender in Harvey's De Generatione Animalium -- Embryonic individuals: mechanism, embryology, and modern man -- The masculine subject of touch: case histories from the birthing room.
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Location Status History of MedicineDA.41.AA5-6Open shelves
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ISBN
- 0295986417
- 9780295986418