(P)rescription narratives : feminist medical fiction and the failure of American censorship /

Examines how women writers of medical fiction rewrite cultural narratives of the female body against censorship under the Comstock Laws.

Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Tavera, Stephanie Peebles (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Edinburgh Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Cyfres:Interventions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv2x1nqk1
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Crip medicine: Environmental health and the matter of hysteria
  • Listen for the new man: From narrative prosthesis to narrative medicine
  • Kinetic medicine: Superposition of Black female subjectivity before the law
  • Affective fear: Vulnerability and risk in anti-VD campaign counternarratives
  • Conclusion: Medical theater: The birth of anti-lynching plays and reproductive justice.