Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves : The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England.
Title:
Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves : The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England.
Author:
Keller, Eve.
ISBN:
9780295990767
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (232 pages)
Series:
In Vivo
Contents:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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