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Public Privates: Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum
Terri Kapsalis
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Description for Public Privates: Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum
Paperback. The quintessential examination of women, gynaecology is not simply the study of women's bodies, but also serves to define them. This book considers the public exposure of female 'privates' in the performance of the pelvic examination. It focuses on the ways in which women and their bodies have been treated by the medical establishment. Num Pages: 232 pages, 34 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: MJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 554.
In Public Privates, a book about looking and being looked at, about speculums, spectacles, and spectators, about display, illumination, and reflection, Terri Kapsalis makes visible the practices and representations of gynecology. The quintessential examination of women, gynecology is not simply the study of women’s bodies, but also serves to define and constitute them. Any critical analysis of gynecology is therefore, as Kapsalis affirms, an investigation of what it means to be female. In this respect she considers the public exposure of female "privates" in the performance of the pelvic exam.
From J. Marion Sims’s surgical experiments on unanesthetized slave ... Read more
In Public Privates, a book about looking and being looked at, about speculums, spectacles, and spectators, about display, illumination, and reflection, Terri Kapsalis makes visible the practices and representations of gynecology. The quintessential examination of women, gynecology is not simply the study of women’s bodies, but also serves to define and constitute them. Any critical analysis of gynecology is therefore, as Kapsalis affirms, an investigation of what it means to be female. In this respect she considers the public exposure of female "privates" in the performance of the pelvic exam.
From J. Marion Sims’s surgical experiments on unanesthetized slave ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822319214
SKU
V9780822319214
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99-1
About Terri Kapsalis
Terri Kapsalis is a performer and health educator. Her writings have appeared in Lusitania, New Foundations, Public, and the Drama Review, among other publications. She has taught in medical schools as a gynecology teaching associate and is currently teaching in the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University.
Reviews for Public Privates: Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum
“Health educator, performer, and scholar Terri Kapsalis gives us a series of brilliantly performed readings of gynecology’s complex private and public lives in medical texts, history books, clinics, popular film, and performance art. More than just cultural critique, Public Privates is a feminist guide to locating our own agency as active performers in the multilayered practices and discourses devoted to ... Read more