The Female Body in Medicine and Literature

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

1. Introduction

      Andrew Mangham and Greta Depledge

2. ‘Difficulties, at present in no Degree clear’d up’: The Controversial Mother, 1600-1800

      Carolyn D. Williams

3. Monstrous Issues: The Uterus as Riddle in Early Modern Medical Texts

      Lori Schroeder Haslem

4. Surveilling the Secrets of the Female Body: The Contest for Reproductive Authority in the Popular Press of the Seventeenth Century

      Susan C. Staub

5. ‘Made in Imitation of Real Women and Children’: Obstetrical Machines in Eighteenth Century Britain

      Pam Lieske

6. Transcending the Sexed Body: Reason, Sympathy, and ‘Thinking Machines’ in the Debates over Male Midwifery

      Sheena Sommers

7. Emma Martin and the Manhandled Womb in Early Victorian England

      Dominic Janes

8. Narrating the Victorian Vagina: Charlotte Brontë and the Masturbating Woman

      Emma L. E. Rees

9. ‘Those Parts Peculiar to Her Organization’: Some Observations on the History of Pelvimetry, a Nearly Forgotten Obstetric Sub-speciality

      Joanna Grant
10. ‘She read on more eagerly, almost breathlessly’: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Challenge to Medical Depictions of Female Masturbation in The Doctor’s Wife

      Laurie Garrison

11. Mrs Robinson’s ‘Day-book of Iniquity’: Reading Bodies of/and Evidence in the Context of the 1858 Medical Reform Act

      Janice M. Allan

12. Rebecca’s Womb: Irony and Gynaecology in Rebecca
      Madeleine K. Davies

13. Representations of Illegal Abortionists in England, 1900-1967

      Emma L. Jones

14. Afterword: Reading History as/and Vision

      Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

Index