Generating bodies and gendered - selves

Informationen zum Autor Eve Keller Klappentext Eve Keller is associate professor of English at Fordham University in New York and is president of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Zusammenfassung 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. This book looks at the particular assumptions about bodies and selves that medical language inevitably enfolds. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. On Either Side of the Early Modern: Posthuman and Premodern Bodies and Selves ANCIENT REVISIONS 2. Subjectified Parts and Supervenient Selves: Rewriting Galenism in Crooke's Microcosmographia 3. Fixing the Female: Books of Practical Physic for Women MODERN MODULATIONS 4. Making Up for Losses: The Workings of Gender in Harvey's De generatione animalium 5. Embryonic Individuals: Mechanism, Embryology, and Modern Man 6. The Masculine Subject of Touch: Case Histories form the Birthing Room Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Eve Keller, Evelyn Fox Keller
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.02.2007
• EAN: 9780295986418
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98641-8
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 225 mm x 15 mm
• Series: In Vivo; In Vivo: The Cultural Mediatio; In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science; In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science; In Vivo: The Cultural Mediatio; Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves; In Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical ScienceIn Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical ScienceIn Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical ScienceIn Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Bi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)