Picturing Women's Health

AvJi Won Chung

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

The essays in this collection examine women in diverse roles; mother, socialite, prostitute, celebrity, medical practitioner and patient. The wide range of commentators allows a diverse picture of women’s health in this period.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-06-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Warwick Series in the Humanities
Antal sidor:222
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781848934245

Utforska kategorier

Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Rättsliga frågor i hälso- och sjukvården inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Ji Won Chung is a Ph.D Candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

Recensioner i media

'The thought-providing work will be valuable for collections in women's history and the history of medicine ... Highly recommended.' CHOICE

Innehållsförteckning

1. Sensibility and Good Health in Charlotte Smith's Ethelinde 2. Amazonian Fashions: Lady Delacour's (Re)Dress in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda 3. Transforming the Body Politic: Food Reform and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Britain 4 Stagnation of Air and Mind: Picturing Trauma and Miasma in Charlotte Bronte's Villette 5. The Iconography of Anorexia Nervosa in the Long Nineteenth Century 6. Kate Marsden's Leper Project: On Sledge and Horseback with an Outcast Missionary Nurse 7. Constructs of Female Insanity at the Fin de Siecle: The Lawn Hospital, Lincoln, 1882-1902 8. The Fitness of the Female Medical Student, 1895-1910 9. Unstable Adolescence/Unstable Literature? Managing British Girls' Health around 1900