Fixing Women: The Birth of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Britain and America - Couverture souple

Nichols, Marcia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 173554230X ISBN 13 : 9781735542300

Editeur : University of California Medical Humanities Press, 2021

Synopsis

Using the tools of book history, media studies, and literary theory, Fixing Women examines the construction of a masculinist professional selfhood in male-authored midwifery textbooks during the long eighteenth-century. Ordinary birth events were cast as archetypal struggles between life and death that required the intervention of the “Hero-Accoucheur,” who fought valiantly to rescue the pregnant damsel-in-distress endangered by her own body. By casting themselves as literary heroes, medical men could present themselves as altruistic, disinterested professionals. Yet under the mask of altruism and scientific curiosity lurked a self-interested, hegemonic masculinity that justified the emerging medical specialties of obstetrics and gynecology—specialties that required the homogenization of white, bourgeois women as “the Sex.” By charting the development of and struggles of obstetrical discourse, Fixing Women sheds light on the gender politics of a biomedical model and practice that continues to reverberate in our own time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Marcia D. Nichols is Associate Professor in the Center for Learning Innovation at the University of Minnesota Rochester where she teaches literature and medical humanities. She has published on pedagogy and professorial identity, science education, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and medicine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Medical Humanities Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 173554230X
• ISBN 13: 9781735542300
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 235
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible