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A Question of identity : women, science, and literature / edited by Marina Benjamin.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1993.Description: xiii, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0813519829
  • 0813519837
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.93352042 20
Contents:
A Question of Identity / Marina Benjamin -- Reflections on the History of the Science of Woman / Sylvana Tomaselli -- Gendered Knowledge, Gendered Minds: Women and Newtonianism, 1690-1760 / John Mullan -- The Male Scientist, Man-Midwife, and Female Monster: Appropriation and Transmutation in Frankenstein / Marie Mulvey Roberts -- The Aseptic Male Obstetrician and the Filthy Peasant Crone: Contemporary Women Writers' Accounts of Birth / Tess Cosslett -- Conceiving Difference: Reproductive Technology and the Construction of Identity in Two Contemporary Fictions / Susan Squier -- The Gendered Ape: Early Representations of Primates in Europe / Londa Schiebinger -- The Life Cycle of Cyborgs: Writing the Posthuman / N. Katherine Hayles -- Science and the Supernatural in the Stories of Margaret Oliphant / Jenni Calder -- "Preaching to the Nerves": Psychological Disorder in Sensation Fiction / Sally Shuttleworth.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 809.93352042 QUE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 61236

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-244) and index.

A Question of Identity / Marina Benjamin -- Reflections on the History of the Science of Woman / Sylvana Tomaselli -- Gendered Knowledge, Gendered Minds: Women and Newtonianism, 1690-1760 / John Mullan -- The Male Scientist, Man-Midwife, and Female Monster: Appropriation and Transmutation in Frankenstein / Marie Mulvey Roberts -- The Aseptic Male Obstetrician and the Filthy Peasant Crone: Contemporary Women Writers' Accounts of Birth / Tess Cosslett -- Conceiving Difference: Reproductive Technology and the Construction of Identity in Two Contemporary Fictions / Susan Squier -- The Gendered Ape: Early Representations of Primates in Europe / Londa Schiebinger -- The Life Cycle of Cyborgs: Writing the Posthuman / N. Katherine Hayles -- Science and the Supernatural in the Stories of Margaret Oliphant / Jenni Calder -- "Preaching to the Nerves": Psychological Disorder in Sensation Fiction / Sally Shuttleworth.

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