The Female Body and Biomedical Discourse in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel
by
Sondra Archimedes
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the pathologized female body in relation to biomedical discourses about gender and society in Victorian England. According to medical and scientific views of the period, the woman who did not conform to the dictates of gender...