History & Criticism - General & Miscellaneous Photography, General Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art, Women's Health, Reproductive & Body Issues, Socio-Cultural Anthropology - General & Miscellaneous, Sex Role - General & Miscellaneous, Women's Studies - Gen
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Overview
Through a detailed analysis of exterior and interior images of the female body, this book examines the relationship between human reproduction and cultural representation from 1750-1910. With examples drawn from medical archives, covering engraving, photography, radiography, and microscopy, the book is interdisciplinary in approach, ranging across feminist theory, history of medicine, philosophy of science, and the history of photography.
Editorials
Using visual inscriptions of the reproductive female body made between 1750 and 1910, McGrath, (photographic theory and criticism, Napier U., Edinburgh) explores how the modern medical gaze was forged in relation to the women's body as spectacle and sexual object. Distributed in the US by Palgrave. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Book Details
Published
April 25, 2002
Publisher
Manchester ; Manchester University Press ; 2002.
Pages
208
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780719041679