Sondra Archimedes

Gendered Pathologies

The Female Body and Biomedical Discourse in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the pathologized female body in relation to biomedical discourses about gender and society in Victorian England. Analyzing novels by Charles Dickens, H. Rider Haggard, and Thomas Hardy alongside Foucault's notion of perverse sexualities and Herbert Spencer's model of the social organism, Archimedes argues that the pathologized female body displaces or resolves, on a narrative level, larger cultural anxieties about the health of the British as a species.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 169mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780415975261
• ISBN-10: 0415975263
• Artikelnr.: 21785907

Autorenporträt

Sondra M. Archimedes is a lecturer at U.C. Santa Cruz.

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION "Derangements of the Uterus" and Other Mysteries
CHAPTER 1 Science, Gender, and the Nineteenth Century
CHAPTER 2 Towards a Discourse of Perversion: Female Deviance, Sibling
Incest, and the Bourgeois Family in Dickens's HardTimesCHAPTER 3 Women,
Savages, and the Body of Africa: Rider Haggard's She as Biological
Narrative
CHAPTER 4 "Shapes like our own selves hideously multiplied": Sue Bridehead,
Reproduction, and the Disease of "Modern Civilization"
AFTERWORD Female Deviance in the Twenty-First Century: From Martha Stewart
to Lynndie England
WORKS CITED
INDEX