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Seeing her sex : medical archives and the female body

Title: Seeing her sex : medical archives and the female body / Roberta McGrath.
Author: McGrath, Roberta.
Publication: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002.

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Description

x, 195 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

Using visual inscriptions of the reproductive female body made between 1750 and 1910, McGrath, (photographic theory and criticism, Napier U., Edinburgh) explores how the modern medical gaze was forged in relation to the women's body as spectacle and sexual object. Distributed in the US by Palgrave. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Series Statement

The critical image

Uniform Title

Critical image

Subject

Genre/Form

Trivia and miscellanea
Photography, Artistic.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-189) and index.

Contents

1. Geographies of the female body and the histories of photography: images, atlases and clinics -- 2. Il-legal and non-medical: John Roberton and John Joseph Stockdale -- 3. Political anatomies and the rise of the obstetric atlas -- 4. Fractures and dislocations: radiography, the new photography -- 5. Other dimensions: The Edinburgh Stereoscopic Atlas of Obstetrics -- 6. Looking for life: microscopy and modernity.

ISBN

0719041678
9780719041679
0719041686
9780719041686

LCCN

2002072249

OCLC

ocm48361736
48361736
SCSB-1246871

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library