{"product_id":"generating-bodies-and-gendered-selves-9780295986418","title":"Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the textured interrelations between medical writing about generation and childbirth - what we now call reproduction - and emerging notions of selfhood in early modern England. This book looks at the particular assumptions about bodies and selves that medical language inevitably enfolds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Keller's finely detailed investigation . . . . is a brilliant example of how early modern history can benefit from a thorough and sustained engagement with the best scholarship in the fields of cultural theory and science studies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Medical History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The scholarship is exemplary and exact, so this is a useful contribution to the history of literature and philosophy and the history of midwifery and medicine. Here is a sound topic honestly handled.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGenerating Bodies and Gendered Selves\u003c\/i\u003e compellingly shows how medical writing took part in formulating emergent ideas about the self during the early modern period. Both in its larger thesis and in its readings of individual texts, Keller's book is a welcome addition to the study of early modern conceptions of medical knowledge, gender, and subjectivity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Early Modern Literary Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Keller's book offers a compelling series of close readings of selected texts, undertaking detailed analyses of their language to reveal implicit ways of thinking in early modern England. . . . \u003ci\u003eGenerating Bodies and Gendered Selves\u003c\/i\u003e will thus be of most interest to literary scholars concerned with the emergence of the modern subject in written texts, but it should also appeal to historians of medicine as a companion to the historical accounts.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * ISIS *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. On Either Side of the Early Modern: Posthuman and Premodern Bodies and Selves\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eANCIENT REVISIONS\u003cbr\u003e 2. Subjectified Parts and Supervenient Selves: Rewriting Galenism in Crooke's Microcosmographia\u003cbr\u003e 3. Fixing the Female: Books of Practical Physic for Women\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMODERN MODULATIONS\u003cbr\u003e 4. Making Up for Losses: The Workings of Gender in Harvey's De generatione animalium\u003cbr\u003e 5. Embryonic Individuals: Mechanism, Embryology, and Modern Man\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Masculine Subject of Touch: Case Histories form the Birthing Room\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48883955859799,"sku":"9780295986418","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295986418.jpg?v=1722529768","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/generating-bodies-and-gendered-selves-9780295986418","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}