Description: Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves by Eve Keller Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Examines the textured interrelations between medical writing about generation and childbirth - what we now call reproduction - and emerging notions of selfhood in early modern England. This book looks at the particular assumptions about bodies and selves that medical language inevitably enfolds. Publisher Description Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves examines the textured interrelations between medical writing about generation and childbirth - what we now call reproduction - and emerging notions of selfhood in early modern England. At a time when medical texts first appeared in English in large numbers and the first signs of modern medicine were emerging both in theory and in practice, medical discourse of the body was richly interwoven with cultural concerns.Through close readings of a wide range of English-language medical texts from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, from learned anatomies and works of observational embryology to popular books of physic and commercial midwifery manuals, Keller looks at the particular assumptions about bodies and selves that medical language inevitably enfolds. When wombs are described as "free" but nonetheless "bridled" to the bone; when sperm, first seen in the seventeenth century by the aid of the microscope, are imagined as minute "adventurers" seeking a safe spot to be "nursed": and when for the first time embryos are described as "freeborn," fully "independent" from the females who bear them, the rhetorical formulations of generating bodies seem clearly to implicate ideas about the gendered self.Keller shows how, in an age marked by social, intellectual, and political upheaval, early modern English medicine inscribes in the flesh and functioning of its generating bodies the manifold questions about gender, politics, and philosophy that together give rise to the modern Western liberal self - a historically constrained (and, Keller argues, a historically aberrant) notion of the self as individuated and autonomous, fully rational and thoroughly male.An engagingly written and interdisciplinary work that forges a critical nexus among medical history, cultural studies, and literary analysis, Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves will interest scholars in early modern literary studies, feminist and cultural studies of the body and subjectivity, and the history of womens healthcare and reproductive rights. Author Biography Eve Keller is associate professor of English at Fordham University in New York and is president of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Details ISBN 0295986417 ISBN-13 9780295986418 Title Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves Author Eve Keller Format Paperback Year 2007 Pages 232 Publisher University of Washington Press GE_Item_ID:136549724; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780295986418
Book Title: Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Name: Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves : the Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England
Language: English
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2007
Subject: Reproductive Medicine & Technology, Women's Health, General, Gynecology & Obstetrics, Europe / Great Britain / General, History, Life Sciences / Biology
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15 Oz
Author: Eve Keller
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Science, Medical, History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Series: In Vivo: the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science Ser.
Item Width: 6.9 in
Format: Perfect
