Picturing Women's Health

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-84893-424-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

Reihe: Warwick Series in the Humanities

The essays in this collection examine women in diverse roles; mother, socialite, prostitute, celebrity, medical practitioner and patient. The wide range of commentators allows a diverse picture of women’s health in this period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chung, Ji Won

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Sensibility and Good Health in Charlotte Smith's Ethelinde 2. Amazonian Fashions: Lady Delacour's (Re)Dress in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda 3. Transforming the Body Politic: Food Reform and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Britain 4 Stagnation of Air and Mind: Picturing Trauma and Miasma in Charlotte Bronte's Villette 5. The Iconography of Anorexia Nervosa in the Long Nineteenth Century 6. Kate Marsden's Leper Project: On Sledge and Horseback with an Outcast Missionary Nurse 7. Constructs of Female Insanity at the Fin de Siecle: The Lawn Hospital, Lincoln, 1882-1902 8. The Fitness of the Female Medical Student, 1895-1910 9. Unstable Adolescence/Unstable Literature? Managing British Girls' Health around 1900

Über Autor(innen)

Ji Won Chung is a Ph.D Candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.