Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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Book Overview
In six interdisciplinary and wide-ranging essays, Ludmilla Jordanova analyzes scientific and medical representations of gender in advertising, paintings, film, literature, sculpture, wax anatomical models, and professional and popular writing about the biological and medical sciences during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She demonstrates that gender as metaphor has had an exceptionally vigorous life in the history of natural knowledge.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0299122948
ISBN13:9780299122942
Release Date:March 1993
Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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the unveiling of women
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
If you are interested in womens role in art and science then this book is definitely for you. This book is hard to put down as each essay involves you in an articulate vision of how women were involved in dissection, wax modelling etc in the eighteen and nineteeth century.It explains how acts of violence were (and still today) are acted upon womens body to find the truth about science for doctors and scientists knowledge. Also about the unveiling of women and how this involves man and the scientific field.
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