Rebecca Kukla

Mass Hysteria (eBook, ePUB)

Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Mass Hysteria, Rebecca Kukla examines the present-day medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. In the late-eighteenth century, the configuration of the maternal body underwent a radical transformation and the two maternal bodies that emerged out of this transformation still govern our imagination and rituals surrounding pregnancy and lactation. Exploring the history and the current life of these two maternal bodies within medical institutions, popular culture, and politics, Kukla offers a critical assessment of the lived repercussions of these ideological figures and practices for contemporary women's and infants' health and well-being.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461640011
• Artikelnr.: 39487334

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Kukla

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Figures Part 3 Part One Part 4
Introduction - Impressionable Bodies Chapter 5 A "Private Looking-Glasse"
Chapter 6 Permeable and Perambulating Wombs Chapter 7 The Maternal
Imagination Chapter 8 Governing and Ordering Maternal Bodies Chapter 9
Preserving Nature Part 10 Imbibing the Love of the Fatherland Chapter 11
"Begin with Mothers" Chapter 12 Nature, Contingency and Freedom Chapter 13
Imbibing the Love of the Fatherland Chapter 14 The Meaning of Milk in the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Chapter 15 Literal and Figurative
Lactating Bodies Chapter 16 First and Second Nature Part 17 Splitting the
Maternal Body Chapter 18 Rousseau's Hysterical Diagnosis Chapter 19
Monitoring and Mapping Maternal Space Chapter 20 "The Truth Was Thereby
Well Authenticated" Chapter 21 The Fetish Mother and the Unruly Mother
Chapter 22 Dissecting Monsters Chapter 23 Bodies Bordering on the
Pathological Part 24 Part Two Part 25 The Uterus as Public Theater Chapter
26 Setting the Stage Chapt