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Seeing her sex : medical archives and the female body / Roberta McGrath.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGrath, Roberta.
- Series:
- Critical image
- The critical image
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Miscellanea.
- Women.
- Human reproduction--Social aspects.
- Human reproduction.
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).
- Photography, Artistic.
- Sex symbolism.
- Sex role.
- Medical Illustration--history.
- Women--history.
- Anatomy, Comparative--history.
- Human Body.
- Reproductive Medicine--history.
- Social Conditions.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medical Illustration--history.
- Women--history.
- Anatomy, Comparative--history.
- Human Body.
- Reproductive Medicine--history.
- Social Conditions.
- Genre:
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Physical Description:
- x, 195 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002.
- Summary:
- Through a detailed analysis of exterior and interior images of the female body, this book examines the relationship between human reproduction and cultural representation from 1750-1910. With examples drawn from medical archives, covering engraving, photography, radiography, and microscopy, the book is interdisciplinary in approach, ranging across feminist theory, history of medicine, philosophy of science, and the history of photography.
- Contents:
- 1 Geographies of the female body and the histories of photography: images, atlases and clinics 5
- 2 Il-legal and non-medical: John Robertson and John Joseph Stockdale 38
- 3 Political anatomies and the rise of the obstetric atlas 63
- 4 Fractures and dislocations: radiography, the new photography 100
- 5 Other dimensions: The Edinburgh Stereoscopic Atlas of Obstetrics 127
- 6 Looking for life: microscopy and modernity 145.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [178]-189) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0719041678
- 0719041686
- OCLC:
- 48361736
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