Picturing Women's Health

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Edited by Francesca Scott, University of Warwick, Kate Scarth, University of Warwick, Ji Won Chung, University of Warwick

Publisher:: Pickering & Chatto
Online publication date:: December 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781781440490

Subjects:: History, History of Medicine

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Women’s lives changed considerably over the course of the long nineteenth century. As new roles and behaviours became available to them, the ways in which they were represented also increased. The essays in this collection examine women in diverse roles; mother, socialite, celebrity, medical practitioner and patient. The wide range of commentators allows a diverse picture of women’s health in this period. Findings are discussed within the historical, medical, sociological, literary and art historical contexts of the period to make a truly interdisciplinary study.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

CONTENTS
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

List of Contributors
pp ix-xii

List of Figures
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction: Picturing Women's Health
pp 1-10

1 - Sensibility and Good Health in Charlotte Smith's Ethelinde
pp 11-28

2 - Amazonian Fashions: Lady Delacour's (Re)Dress in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda
pp 29-44

3 - Transforming the Body Politic: Food Reform and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Britain
pp 45-58

4 - Stagnation of Air and Mind: Picturing Trauma and Miasma in Charlotte Brontë's Villette
pp 59-76

5 - The Iconography of Anorexia Nervosa in the Long Nineteenth Century
pp 77-104

6 - Kate Marsden's Leper Project: On Sledge and Horseback with an Outcast Missionary Nurse
pp 105-118

7 - Constructs of Female Insanity at the Fin de Siècle: The Lawn Hospital, Lincoln, 1882–1902
pp 119-138

8 - The Fitness of the Female Medical Student, 1895–1910
pp 139-158

9 - Unstable Adolescence/Unstable Literature? Managing British Girls' Health around 1900
pp 159-172

NOTES
pp 173-198

Index
pp 199-208

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