From hysteria to hormones : a rhetorical history / Amy Koerber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koerber, Amy (Amy Lunn), author.

Series:

RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric

RSA STR : the RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Health and hygiene--History.

Women.

Hormones--History.

Hormones.

Hysteria--History.

Hysteria.

Rhetoric.

Women's Health--history.

Hormones--history.

Hysteria--history.

Women--Health and hygiene.

History.

Medical Subjects:

Women's Health--history.

Hormones--history.

Hysteria--history.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 239 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word 'hormone' and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women's health"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Hormones and hysteria : a rhetorical topology

Hysteria from ancient texts until the nineteenth century : the womb as topological space

Charcot's circus : nineteenth-century science of hysteria as a moment of stasis

Stasis unsettled : the early twentieth-century rise of endocrinology

Topology of sex difference : a long history of men saying outrageous things about women's reproductive organs

Illuminating women : metaphor and movement after centuries of "groping in the dark"

This is your [female] brain on hormones : enthymeme in contemporary discourse

From hysteria to hormones.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271080857

027108085X

9780271080864

0271080868

OCLC:

1010602755