ORPP logo
Image from Google Jackets

Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves : The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: In Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science SeriesPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (261 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780295990767
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Generating Bodies and Gendered SelvesDDC classification:
  • 618.1/00942
LOC classification:
  • SB
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

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.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

© 2024 Resource Centre. All rights reserved.