The one-sex body on trial : the classical and early modern evidence
Record details
- ISBN: 9781409463368
- ISBN: 1409463362
- ISBN: 9781409463375
- ISBN: 1409463370
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) : illustrations. - Publisher: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, [2013]
- Copyright: ©2013
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-264) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Introduction: Making Sense of Making Sex; Part I: Revisiting the Classics; 1 Making Sex and the Classical World; 2 Picturing the Womb: Vesalius and the Sixteenth Century; Part II: Phaethousa; 3 Phaethousa: Gender and Genre; 4 Phaethousa and Sex Change in Early Modern Europe; Part III: Agnodice; 5 Agnodice: Gender and Genre; 6 Educating Agnodice; 7 Agnodice's First Patient; 8 Agnodice in Parts; Appendix: Agnodice in Latin and in Selected English Translations; Bibliography; Index. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Restrictions: NLC students and staff only. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Sex differentiation -- History Sex differences -- History |
Genre: | Electronic books. History. Electronic books. |