Immaculate Forms (eBook)

Uncovering the History of Women's Bodies

Helen King (Autor)

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2024
578 Seiten
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-634-6 (ISBN)

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With unrivaled expertise and a wealth of classical and contemporary detail, King weaves historical knowledge of medicine, anatomy, literature, art and religion into a narrative that surprises, informs, excites and frequently amuses

With erudition and cool wit, Helen King anatomises three millennia of Western commentary from doctors, teachers and theologians about the female body

Fascinating and interesting

Illuminating and scholarly ... [showing] again and again how men have charted women's bodies, examined and dissected those bodies, condemned those bodies ... King's thoughtful tome addresses how women - historically perceived as mysteries to themselves and those who would seem to know them - have been defined, and how their bodies by their very existence resist those definitions

Dr King expertly weaves science, history, and culture to illuminate history and educate about the most misunderstood parts of our bodies...Impeccably researched, thoroughly enjoyable, and filled with moments of surprise, this book will astound

An impressive ... comprehensive and detailed historical account of the way in parts of women's bodies have been viewed, interpreted, and treated, by society, medicine, and the Church, and mainly by men. [Reaching] back into classical times and around the globe to other than Western civilisations, King has provided a great service in telling so many histories of the breasts, clitoris, hymen, and womb ... this book made me wince, squirm, smile and gasp in surprise and horror - it is not for the fainthearted.

Delightful, timely and critical. If cognitive science has taught us anything, it's that our imagination of the future is built from our memories of the past. Helen King is here to give us some better material to build with. The history of women's bodies isn't nearly what you think it is, nor the history of "womanhood" itself

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.9.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 100 black and white illustrations8PP section colour
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: classics • Gail Kern Paster • gillian anderson want • Hippocrates • history of gynaecology • history of medicine • hysteria • Lindsey Fitzharris • Marieke Bigg • Pain and Prejudice Gabrielle Jackson • The Once and Future Sex Eleanor Janega • Unwell Women Elinor Cleghorn • womb leah hazard • women and medicine • women's bodies • women's studies
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-634-9 / 1782836349
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-634-6 / 9781782836346