Female Body in Medicine and Literature

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Greta Depledge, Andrew Mangham: Female Body in Medicine and Literature (2011, Liverpool University Press)

231 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2011 by Liverpool University Press.

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978-1-78138-654-5
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I acquired this for Emma Rees's excellent "Narrating the Victorian Vagina." It's a fascinating article that gave me new insights, especially about Vilette. For this alone, I was very pleased. What I didn't realize is there was much more here, including a brilliant essay on Rebecca and another on The Doctor's Wife. Altogether, I am astounded by how these great, well-known works can be read in ways that are far more incisive. I am also, of course, horrified by the great lengths women authors took to avoid the topic but still leave their bread crumbs.