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Generating bodies and gendered selves : the rhetoric of reproduction in early modern England
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- Creator
- Eve Keller
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0295990767, 0295986417, 9780295990767, 9780295986418
- OCLC
- ocn778432155, ocm69672824, ocn778882538
- "A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-238) and index.
- On either side of the early modern: posthuman and premodern bodies and selves -- Subjectified parts and supervenient selves: rewriting Galenism in Crooke's microcosmographia -- Fixing the female: books of practical physic for women -- Making up for losses: the workings of gender in Harvey's De Generatione Animalium -- Embryonic individuals: mechanism, embryology, and modern man -- The masculine subject of touch: case histories from the birthing room
Subjects
- Gynecology -- England -- History.
- Human reproduction -- England -- History.
- Obstetrics -- England -- History.
- Gynecology -- Philosophy.
- Medicine -- England -- History.
- Self (Philosophy) -- England -- History.
- Self (Philosophy) in literature -- History.
- Gynecology -- history -- England.
Medical Subject Heading
- Reproduction -- England.
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- Women's Health -- history -- England.
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- History, Early Modern 1451-1600 -- England.
Medical Subject Heading
- Self Concept.
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- England -- Civilization.