(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.
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Edinburgh Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Serie: | Interventions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv2x1nqk1 |
Sommario:
- 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.