Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth CenturiesIn six interdisciplinary and wide-ranging essays, Ludmilla Jordanova analyzes scientific and medical representations of gender in advertising, paintings, film, literature, sculpture, wax anatomical models, and professional and popular writing about the biological and medical sciences during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She demonstrates that gender as metaphor has had an exceptionally vigorous life in the history of natural knowledge. |
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... Thea von Harbou und der deutsche Film bis 1933 , Hildesheim . Keller , E.F. ( 1985 ) Reflections on Gender and Science , New Haven , Conn . Kemp , M. ( ed . ) ( 1975 ) Dr William Hunter at the Royal Academy of Arts , Glasgow . Kirk ...
... Thea von Harbou und der deutsche Film bis 1933 , Hildesheim . Keller , E.F. ( 1985 ) Reflections on Gender and Science , New Haven , Conn . Kemp , M. ( ed . ) ( 1975 ) Dr William Hunter at the Royal Academy of Arts , Glasgow . Kirk ...
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... Isle - Adam , Philippe - Auguste , 121 violence , 5 , 60-3 , 136 , 142 Virey , Jean - Joseph , 95 , 174 vision , 90 , 91 , 95 , 110 , 157 , see also sight vivisection , 101 , 138 von Harbou , Thea , 206 Sexual visions.
... Isle - Adam , Philippe - Auguste , 121 violence , 5 , 60-3 , 136 , 142 Virey , Jean - Joseph , 95 , 174 vision , 90 , 91 , 95 , 110 , 157 , see also sight vivisection , 101 , 138 von Harbou , Thea , 206 Sexual visions.
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... von Harbou , Thea , 113 , 115 , 117 , 180 voyeurism , 10 , 15 , 61 Warner , Marina , 89 wax models , 44-5 , 47-50 , 54-5 , 58 , 65 , 137 , 143 , 170 , 173 , 183 Weideger , Paula , 10-11 wet - nursing , 29-30 Williams , Raymond , 22-3 ...
... von Harbou , Thea , 113 , 115 , 117 , 180 voyeurism , 10 , 15 , 61 Warner , Marina , 89 wax models , 44-5 , 47-50 , 54-5 , 58 , 65 , 137 , 143 , 170 , 173 , 183 Weideger , Paula , 10-11 wet - nursing , 29-30 Williams , Raymond , 22-3 ...
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