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Cover of: Gender and Disease in Literary and Medical Cultures
Gender and Disease in Literary and Medical Cultures
2014, Universitatsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg
in English
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Gender and disease in literary and medical cultures
2014, Universitätsverlag Winter
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Gender and disease in literary and medical cultures -- Anne-Julia Zwierlein and Iris M. Heid
Some aspects of medical research on sex and gender differences : risky lifestyle or risky genes? -- Julika Loss, Miriam Banas, Andrea Baessler, Edith Reuschel, Marina Kreutz, Sven Schmalfuss and Iris M. Heid
Krankheit als Heil? Genderperspektiven auf das Opfer der Gesundheit in der Literatur des Mittelalters -- Edith Feistner
Soulless animals? Some Renaissance discussions concerning women's immaterial parts -- Dorothea Heitsch
Fashionable disease and gender in the long eighteenth century -- Clark Lawlor
"Disastrous birth-nights" : childbed and child-birth in the nineteenth-century novel. Reflections on gender and medicalization -- Felix Sprang
"The texture of her nerves and the palpitation of her heart" : vocation, hysteria, and the 'surplus female' in nineteenth-century literature and medical discoures -- Anne-Julia Zwierlein
"Killing no murder" : puerperal insanity and infanticide in late-Victorian British literature -- Anna Farkas
Of he-nurses and she-doctors : gendered accounts of yellow fever in postbellum American literature -- Ingrid Gessner
"You half-baked Lazarus" : masculinity and the maimed body in Sean O'Casey's The silver tassie -- Martin Decker
Quantifying desire, qualifying disease. Gendered images of sexual addiction in Spanish cinema of Pedro Almodóvar, Julio Medem, and Valérie Tasso -- Ralf Junkerjüngen
Gender and medical realism in the poetry of Donald Hall -- Katharina Boehm
Ein richtiger Indianer? Kranke Jungen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur -- Anita Schilcher
Picture disease - performing disease -- Barbara Oettl.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

In English, with two contributions in German.

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Heidelberg
Series
Regensburger Beiträge zur Gender-Forschung -- Band 7, Regensburger Beiträge zur Gender-Forschung -- Bd. 7.

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PN56.G45 G45 2014

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250 pages
Number of pages
250

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OL43353719M
ISBN 13
9783825363765
OCLC/WorldCat
890590043

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