Hi Anne
thought this might be of interest?
B
Billie Hunter
Professor of Midwifery
Centre for Midwifery and Gender Studies
School of Health Science
Floor 2 Vivian Tower
University of Wales Swansea
Swansea SA2 8PP
01792 518584
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Subject: New Book: Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves: The Rhetoric of
Reproduction... (Keller)
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Subject: New Book Announcement
University of Washington Press
Book News
Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves:
The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England
Eve Keller
Publication date: February 2007
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 physical and commercial midwifery manuals, Keller looks at
the particular assumptions about bodies and selves that medical
language inevitably enfolds. 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.
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 women's
healthcare and reproductive rights.
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.
In Vivo Series
232 pp., 11 illus., notes, bibliog., index, 7" x 9"
Paper-ISBN 13: 978-0-295-98641-8
ISBN 10: 0-295-98641-7, $30.00s / £18.99
To request a review copy, contact: Rachael Mann
University of Washington Press
P.O. Box 50096
Seattle, WA 98145-5096 USA
Telephone: (206) 221-4995 / Fax: (206) 543-3932
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