Research Catalog

Title

Generating bodies and gendered selves [electronic resource] : the rhetoric of reproduction in early modern England / Eve Keller.

Author

Keller, Eve, 1960-

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2007.

Details

Description

1 online resource (xi, 248 p.) : ill.

Series Statement

In vivo

Uniform Title

• Generating bodies and gendered selves (Online)
• In vivo (Seattle, Wash.)

Alternative Title

Generating bodies and gendered selves (Online)

Subject

• Gynecology > England > History
• Human reproduction > England > History
• Obstetrics > England > History
• Gynecology > Philosophy
• Medicine > England > History
• Self (Philosophy) > England > History
• Self (Philosophy) in literature > History
• England > Civilization

Note

• "A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-238) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

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.

LCCN

2006016948

OCLC

ssj0000580902

Author

Keller, Eve, 1960-

Title

Generating bodies and gendered selves [electronic resource] : the rhetoric of reproduction in early modern England / Eve Keller.

Imprint

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2007.

Series

In vivo

In vivo (Seattle, Wash.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-238) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card

Available onsite at NYPL