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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... 1 19 43 66 5. Nature unveiling before science 87 6. Science , machines and gender 111 7. Medical images of the female body 134 Afterword 160 Notes 163 Bibliography Index 186 203 Plates Cover Gabriel Max , Der Anatom , 1869 ,
... 1 19 43 66 5. Nature unveiling before science 87 6. Science , machines and gender 111 7. Medical images of the female body 134 Afterword 160 Notes 163 Bibliography Index 186 203 Plates Cover Gabriel Max , Der Anatom , 1869 ,
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