L J Jordanova

Nature Displayed

Gender, Science and Medicine 1760-1820

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Nature Displayed brings together in a single, illustrated volume the key writings by one of the leading figures in cultural history. Professor Jordanova examines and reinterprets texts and images from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and, in the process, sheds light on contemporary attitudes to femininity and masculinity, child-rearing, health and hygiene and knowledge of nature. The book includes some of the author's most controversial and pioneering work. All previously published pieces have been revised and much of the material is published here for the first time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781138181304
• ISBN-10: 1138181307
• Artikelnr.: 70014806

Autorenporträt

L.J. Jordanova

Inhaltsangabe

1. Cultural Effort: An Introductory Essay. Part One Natural Polarities. 2.
Feminine Figures - Nature Display'd. 3. Nature's Powers: A Reading of the
Distinction Between Creation and Production. 4. Melancholy Reflection:
Constructing an Identity for Unveilers of Nature. 5. The Authoritarian
Response: The French Revolution and the Enlightenment. Part Two Body
Management. 6. The Popularization of Medicine: Tissot on Onanism. 7.
Medical Mediations: Mind, Body and the Guillotine. 8. Guarding the Body
Politic: Volney's Catechism of 1793. 9. Policing Public Health in France
1780-1815. Part Three Family Values. 10. Naturalizing the Family :
Literature and the Bio-medical Sciences of the Late Eighteenth Century. 11.
Gender, Generation and Science: William Hunter's Obstetric Atlas. 12.
Cultures of Kinship. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index.