Generating bodies and gendered selves : the rhetoric of reproduction in early modern England

The Resource Generating bodies and gendered selves : the rhetoric of reproduction in early modern England
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Generating bodies and gendered selves : the rhetoric of reproduction in early modern England
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the rhetoric of reproduction in early modern England
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Eve Keller
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eng
Summary
Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves 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. At a time when medical texts first appeared in English in large numbers and the first signs of modern medicine were emerging both in theory and in practice, medical discourse of the body was richly interwoven with cultural concerns. Through close readings of a wide range of English-language medical texts from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, from learned anatomies and works of observational embryology to popular books of physic and commercial midwifery manuals, Keller looks at the particular assumptions about bodies and selves that medical language inevitably enfolds
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DNLM/DLC
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
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illustrations
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index present
LC call number
RG518.G7
LC item number
K45 2007
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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WP 11 FE5
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K29g 2007
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In vivo

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