Vernacular Bodies
Mary E. (Associate Professor, History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University) Fissell
Oxford University Press, 2004
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Presenting an account of ordinary people's ideas about reproduction, this book offers a different way to think about the history of the body by focusing on women's bodies, showing how ideas about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth were also ways of talking about gender relations and thus all relations of power.
- ISBN-13
- 9780199269884
- ISBN-10
- 0199269882
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2004
- Publication date
- 2004-11-25
- Pages
- 296
- Dimensions
- 240x162x22
- Weight
- 668