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Title:

Picturing women's health / edited by Francesca Scott, Kate Scarth and Ji Won Chung.

Publisher:

Pickering & Chatto,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women--History--History--19th century.

Other Authors:

Scott, Francesca, editor of compilation.
Scarth, Kate, editor of compilation.
Chung, Ji Won, editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Picturing women's health / Francesca Scott, Kate Scarth and Ji Won Chung -- 1 Sensibility and good health in Charlotte Smith's 'Ethelinde' / Joseph Morrissey -- 2 Amazonian fashions: Lady Delacour's (re)dress in Maria Edgeworth's 'Belinda' / Andrew McInnes -- 3 Transforming the body politic: food reform and feminism in nineteenth-century Britain / Sarah Richardson --4 Stagnation of air and mind: picturing trauma and miasma in Charlotte Brontë's 'Villette' / Alexandra Lewis -- 5 The iconography of anorexia nervosa in the long nineteenth century / Susannah Wilson -- 6 Kate Marsden's leper project: on sledge and horseback with an outcast missionary nurse / Tabitha Sparks -- 7 Constructs of female insanity at the fin de siècle: the Lawn Hospital, Lincoln, 1882-1902 / Katherine Ford -- 8 The fitness of the female medical student, 1895-1910 / Claire Brock -- 9 Unstable adolescence/unstable literature? Managing British girls' health around 1900 / Hilary Marland.

Series:

Warwick series in the humanities ; number 4

ISBN:

1848934246 (hbk.)
9781848934245 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)864090086

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)