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Author	Keller, Eve, 1960-
Title	Generating bodies and gendered selves [e-book] the rhetoric of reproduction in early modern England / Eve Keller.
Publication Info.	Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2007. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)

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Online Resource	E-book	IN LIBRARY

Description	1 online resource (xi, 248 p. :) ill. ;
Series	In vivo (Seattle, Wash.)
	UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Note	"A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book."
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-238) and index.
Contents	On either side of the early modern: posthuman and premodern bodies and selves -- Subjectified parts and supervenient selves: rewriting galenism in Crooke's microcosmographia -- Fixing the female: books of practical physic for women -- Making up for losses: the workings of gender in Harvey's De Generatione Animalium -- Embryonic individuals: mechanism, embryology, and modern man -- The masculine subject of touch: case histories from the birthing room.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Access	Remote access limited to New York Society Library members with a username and password.
Subject	Self (Philosophy) in literature -- History.
	Self (Philosophy) -- England -- History.
	Medicine -- England -- History.
	Gynecology -- Philosophy.
	Obstetrics -- England -- History.
	Human reproduction -- England -- History.
	Gynecology -- England -- History.
	England -- Civilization.
Genre or Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Project Muse.
ISBN	0295986417 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9780295986418 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9780295990767
	0295990767

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