Gendered pathologies : the female body and biomedical discourse in the nineteenth-century English novel
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Gendered pathologies : the female body and biomedical discourse in the nineteenth-century English novel
（Literary criticism and cultural theory）
Routledge, 2005
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"Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2003"--CIP data
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-196) and index
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収録内容
- Introduction : "Derangements of the uterus" and other mysteries
- Science, gender, and the nineteenth century
- Towards a discourse of perversion : female deviance, sibling incest, and the bourgeois family in Dickens's Hard times
- Women, savages, and the body of Africa : Rider Haggard's She as biological narrative
- "Shapes like our own selves hideously multiplied" : Sue Bridehead, reproduction, and the disease of "modern civilization"
- Afterword : female deviance in the twenty-first century : from Martha Stewart to Lynndie England
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the pathologized female body in relation to biomedical discourses about gender and society in Victorian England. According to medical and scientific views of the period, the woman who did not conform to the dictates of gender ideology was, biologically speaking, aberrant: a deviation from the norm. Yet, although marginalized in a social sense, the "deviant" woman was central as a literary and cultural trope. Analyzing novels by Charles Dickens, H. Rider Haggard, and Thomas Hardy alongside Foucault's notion of perverse sexualities and Herbert Spencer's model of the social organism, Archimedes argues that the pathologized female body displaces or resolves, on a narrative level, larger cultural anxieties about the health of the British as a species. While earlier feminist investigations asserted that bourgeois ideology helped to construct scientific discourses about female sexuality and social behavior, this study takes these assertions as a starting point . Examining incest, racial stereotyping, and neurasthenia, Gendered Pathologies attempts to shed light on the ways in which biological thinking permeated British culture in the second half of the nineteenth century.
目次
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION "Derangements of the Uterus" and Other Mysteries
CHAPTER 1 Science, Gender, and the Nineteenth Century
CHAPTER 2 Towards a Discourse of Perversion: Female Deviance, Sibling Incest, and the Bourgeois Family in Dickens's HardTimesCHAPTER 3 Women, Savages, and the Body of Africa: Rider Haggard's She as Biological Narrative
CHAPTER 4 "Shapes like our own selves hideously multiplied": Sue Bridehead, Reproduction, and the Disease of "Modern Civilization"
AFTERWORD Female Deviance in the Twenty-First Century: From Martha Stewart to Lynndie England
WORKS CITED
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