Our Bodies, Ourselves and the Work of Writing

Zusatztext "Here is a unique approach to a familiar book! the first study to focus on the language! writing! and literary techniques of Our Bodies! Ourselves . Wells evokes a sense of the emotional investment that women had in seeing change in the status quo and offers insights into the women's health movements of which even the participants may have been unaware." Informationen zum Autor Susan Wells is Professor of English at Temple University. Her most recent book is the prizewinning Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine (2001). Klappentext This book is a sociological and rhetorical analysis of the best-selling guide to women's health, the collectively authored "Our Bodies, Ourselves." Zusammenfassung This book is a sociological and rhetorical analysis of the best-selling guide to women's health, the collectively authored Our Bodies, Ourselves.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Wells
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.01.2010
• EAN: 9780804763080
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6308-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies