Generating bodies and gendered selves: the rhetoric of reproduction in early modern england
Auteur :
Keller, Eve
Éditeur :
University of Washington Press
ISBN :
9780295986418
Date de publication :
3 janv. 2007
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
426 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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. This book looks at the particular assumptions about bodies and selves that medical language inevitably enfolds.