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| Author | : Andrew Mangham |
| Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2011-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1846314720 |
Drawing on a range of texts from the seventeenth century to the present, The Female Body in Medicine and Literature explores accounts of motherhood, fertility, and clinical procedures for what they have to tell us about the development of women's medicine. The essays here offer nuanced historical analyses of subjects that have received little critical attention, including the relationship between gynecology and psychology and the influence of popular art forms on so-called women's science prior to the twenty-first century. Taken together, these essays offer a wealth of insight into the medical treatment of women and will appeal to scholars in gender studies, literature, and the history of medicine.
| Author | : Mervat Nasser |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2007-04-11 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 1134173083 |
The Female Body in Mind introduces new ways of thinking about issues of women's mental health assessment and treatment. Its multidisciplinary approach incorporates social, psychological, biological and philosophical perspectives on the female body. The contributions, from notable academics in the field of women's mental health, examine the relationship between women's bodies, society and culture, demonstrating how the body has become a platform for women's expression of their distress and anguish. The book is divided into six sections, all centred on the theme of the body, covering: The body at risk. The hurting body. The reproductive body. The interactive body. Body-sensitive therapies. The body on my mind. All professionals involved in women's mental health will welcome this exploration of the complexities involved in the relationship between women bodies and their mental health.
| Author | : Anita Bernstein |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1107177812 |
Explains why lawyers seeking gender progress from primary legal materials should start with the common law.
| Author | : Lori Reed |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2012-02-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1438429541 |
A feminist and Foucauldian analysis of a variety of emerging gendered discourses.
| Author | : Helen King |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 341 |
| Release | : 2002-01-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134772211 |
Hippocrates' Woman demonstrates the role of Hippocratic ideas about the female body in the subsequent history of western gynaecology. It examines these ideas not only in the social and cultural context in which they were first produced, but also the ways in which writers up to the Victorian period have appealed to the material in support of their own theories. Among the conflicting tange of images of women given in the Hippocratic corpus existed one tradition of the female body which says it is radically unlike the male body, behaving in different ways and requiring a different set of therapies. This book sets this model within the context of Greek mythology, especially the myth of Pandora and her difference from men, to explore the image of the body as something to be read. Hippocrates' Woman presents an arresting study of the origins of gynaecology, an exploration of how the interior workings of the female body were understood and the influence of Hippocrates' theories on the gynaecology of subsequent ages.
| Author | : Kathy Davis |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2013-10-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1135207003 |
Reshaping... looks at women's involvement in cosmetic surgery and raises the question of why women put themselves under the knife for operations which are painful, risky and expensive and often leave them in worse shape than before.
| Author | : L. Jeffries |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2007-09-18 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0230593623 |
This volume takes a critical discourse approach to the ways women's magazines contribute to the social construction of particular kinds of female body - as ideal, beautiful, ugly, overweight or engineered. Looking at the language used, it provides an insight into the experience of the female reader, and the likely impact upon her self-image.
| Author | : Zillah R. Eisenstein |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2024-07-26 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0520414403 |
The Female Body and the Law provides an original and incisive reexamination of the dynamics of sexual equality. Eisenstein contends that sexual inequality is fostered both by the law and by the insistence that men and women are biologically different. Through a fascinating discussion of a series of issues including affirmative action, AIDS, Baby M, pornography, and abortion, Eisenstein shows how the law operates as a political language that establishes and curtails choices and actions. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
| Author | : Ingrid Moeslein-Teising |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 373 |
| Release | : 2018-04-19 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0429920768 |
This book gathers together a number of cutting edge contributions about the female body, inside and out, from a large group of psychoanalysts who are at the forefront of new thinking about issues of femininity, the female body, sex and gender. It explores the female body in art, in pregnancy and motherhood, in sexuality and in the lifecycle, and finally the female body as scene of crime. As a result this book covers aspects of female creativity in its many aspects, both productive and generative and where there are difficulties or impediments. The psychoanalysts writing for this book have made an enormous contribution in the past and this book therefore aims to stimulate, challenge and provoke further discussion and new advances in this field.
| Author | : David Bainbridge |
| Publisher | : Abrams |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2015-11-09 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1468312944 |
A zoologist explores the unique evolution of the female body in this fascinating study of social, historical, and biological influences. Humans are the only mammals whose females have curvy bodies. In Curvology, zoologist David Bainbridge uses his scientific know-how to explore this anatomical mystery. With wide ranging data and analysis, he delves into the social and psychological consequences of our fixation with curves and fat. Blending evolutionary biology, cultural observation, and cutting-edge psychology, Bainbridge critically synthesize the science and history of women’s body shape, from ancient homonids to the age of the selfie, offering insights into how women’s bodies became objects of fascination and raising awareness about what this scrutiny does to our brains. Packed with controversial and compelling findings that drive us to think about the significance of our curves and what they mean for future generations, Curvology offers not just a compelling collection of facts and studies, but a fascinating take on human evolution.
