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