New PDF release: Gendered Pathologies: The Female Body and Biomedical

By Sondra Archimedes

Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the pathologized girl physique with regards to biomedical discourses approximately gender and society in Victorian England. in keeping with scientific and medical perspectives of the interval, the lady who didn't agree to the dictates of gender ideology was once, biologically conversing, aberrant: a deviation from the norm. but, even if marginalized in a social feel, the "deviant" girl used to be principal as a literary and cultural trope. studying novels via Charles Dickens, H. Rider Haggard, and Thomas Hardy along Foucault's suggestion of perverse sexualities and Herbert Spencer's version of the social organism, Archimedes argues that the pathologized lady physique displaces or resolves, on a story point, greater cultural anxieties concerning the wellbeing and fitness of the British as a species. whereas past feminist investigations asserted that bourgeois ideology helped to build medical discourses approximately lady sexuality and social behavior, this research takes those assertions as a place to begin . studying incest, racial stereotyping, and neurasthenia, Gendered Pathologies attempts to make clear the ways that organic pondering permeated British tradition within the moment 1/2 the 19th century.

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