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From hysteria to hormones : a rhetorical history / Amy Koerber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koerber, Amy (Amy Lunn), author.
- Series:
- RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.
- The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhetoric.
- Hormones--History.
- Hormones.
- Hysteria--History.
- Hysteria.
- Women--Health and hygiene--History.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- 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.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271081557
- 0271081554
- 9780271081571
- 0271081570
- OCLC:
- 1032611994
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