Keller, Eve.

Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves : The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (261 pages) - In Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science Series . - In Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Ancient Revisions -- 1 / On Either Side of the Early Modern: Posthuman and Premodern Bodies and Selves -- 2 / Subjectified Parts and Supervenient Selves: Rewriting Galenism in Crooke's 'Microcosmographia' -- 3 / Fixing the Female: Books of Practical Physics 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 from the Birthing Room -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Reproduction - England.


Electronic books.

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618.1/00942