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Andrew Mangham - The Female Body in Medicine and Literature - 9781846318528 - V9781846318528
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The Female Body in Medicine and Literature

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Description for The Female Body in Medicine and Literature Paperback. Features essays that explores literary texts in relation to the history of gynaecology and women's surgery. This title demonstrate how fiction and medicine have a long-established tradition of looking towards each other for inspiration and elucidation in questions of gender. Editor(s): Mangham, Andrew; Depledge, Greta. Num Pages: 231 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1; MB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 233 x 14. Weight in Grams: 386.
The Female Body in Medicine and Literature features essays that explore literary texts in relation to the history of gynaecology and women's surgery. Gender studies and feminist approaches to literature have become busy and enlightening fields of enquiry in recent times, yet there remains no single work that fully analyses the impact of women's surgery on literary production or, conversely, ways in which literary trends have shaped the course of gynaecology and other branches of women's medicine. This book will demonstrate how fiction and medicine have a long-established tradition of looking towards each other for inspiration and elucidation in questions ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
231
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846318528
SKU
V9781846318528
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99-9

About Andrew Mangham
Contributors: Janice Allan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford. Madeleine K. Davies is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Reading. Greta Depledge is an Associate Tutor for the Open University and for the Faculty of Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck ... Read more

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An engaging and important book. Holly Furneaux

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