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The man-midwife's tale: Re-reading male-authored midwifery guides in Britain and America, 1750--1820.

机译:助产士的故事:重新阅读男性和女性在1750--1820年间在英国和美国撰写的助产士指南。

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In Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves, Eve Keller seeks to locate the emergence of the masculinist "modern, liberal self" in seventeenth century embryology through the close-reading of a wide array of texts invested in articulating embryological theories. In doing so, she points out "the value of reading [medical texts] not a straightforward registers of historical practice but primarily as rhetorical constructs, as public performances offered for commercial consumption, intended not so much to instruct as to promulgate certain images and identities of the practitioners." My dissertation, "The Man-Midwife's Tale: Re-reading Male-Authored Midwifery Guides in Britain and America, 1750-1820," builds upon on recent work in gender relation, sexuality and the history of medicine to elucidate a nuanced history of the rhetorical constructions of masculinist self-hood and the sexed female body in midwifery manuals. My contribution is a comparative analysis of the material texts themselves that enriches the current scholarly understanding of obstetrics, gender and sex. Much of my research has been to compare and contrast multiple editions and iterations of the same titles across the long eighteenth century, titles that range from the Aristotle texts to William Smellie' acclaimed treatise and the first full-length American midwifery manual by Dr. Samuel Bard. Such comparisons shed new light on the interactions of authors, publishers and readers and exposes the ways in which ideas about gender and sex were formed, transformed and entrenched over time. The construction of women as "the Sex" emerged gradually, in correlation with the perceived authority of man-midwifery. The profession's authority derived in great measure from the successful deployment of the trope of what I will call the "hero-accoucheur." Applying literary techniques to medical texts reveals the rhetorical strategies and fictions of medicine. My project seeks to understand midwifery guides as texts---as reading material, written for and consumed by, a public interested and in childbirth and generation.
机译:夏娃·凯勒(Eve Keller)在《产生身体和性别的自我》中,试图通过仔细阅读大量用于阐明胚胎学理论的文章,​​来定位男性主义“现代,自由的自我”在十七世纪胚胎学中的出现。在这样做时,她指出“阅读[医学文献]的价值不是简单的历史实践记录,而主要是作为修辞结构,因为为商业消费提供的公共表演,其目的不是为了指导某些图像和身份的发布。从业者。”我的论文“接生婆的故事:重新阅读英国和美国男性授权的助产士指南,1750年至1820年”,是建立在最近关于性别关系,性行为和医学史的研究成果的基础上的,阐明了人类的助产士历史的细微差别。助产士手册中男性气概的自我修辞和女性性器官的修辞构造。我的贡献是对材料文本进行了比较分析,丰富了当前对产科,性别和性别的学术理解。我的大部分研究工作是比较和对比18世纪漫长的同一标题的多个版本和迭代,这些标题从亚里斯多德文本到威廉·斯梅利的著名论文,以及塞缪尔博士的第一本全长的美国助产手册。诗人。这种比较为作者,出版者和读者之间的互动提供了新的视角,并揭示了随着时间的流逝,关于性别和性观念的形成,转化和根深蒂固的方式。与男性助产士的权威感相关,女性作为“性”的建构逐渐出现。该行业的权威在很大程度上得益于成功部署了我称之为“英雄代言人”的话语单。将文学技术应用于医学文献揭示了医学的修辞策略和小说。我的项目旨在将助产士指南理解为文本,即由感兴趣的公众以及分娩和世代为大众编写和消费的阅读材料。

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  • 作者

    Nichols, Marcia D.;

  • 作者单位

    University of South Carolina.;

  • 授予单位 University of South Carolina.;
  • 学科 Literature Modern.;Literature American.;Literature English.;History of Science.;Womens Studies.;Health Sciences Obstetrics and Gynecology.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2010
  • 页码 286 p.
  • 总页数 286
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类
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  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 11:36:51

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