Mass hysteria : medicine, culture, and mothers' bodies / Rebecca Kukla.

  • Kukla, Rebecca, 1969-
Date:
[2005], ©2005
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Publication/Creation

Lanham, Md. ; Oxford : Rowman & Littlefield, [2005], ©2005.

Physical description

xii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-244) and index.

Contents

Impressionable bodies -- Imbibing the love of the fatherland -- Splitting the maternal body -- The uterus as public theater -- Separation anxiety -- Intimacy, vulnerability, and the politics of discomfort -- Fixing the boundaries of mothers' bodies.

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    History of Medicine
    UND /KUK
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  • 0742533573
  • 9780742533578
  • 0742533581
  • 9780742533585