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

SeriesExplorations in bioethics and the medical humanities
Explorations in bioethics and the medical humanities. ^A1472457
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.
Review "In Mass Hysteria, Rebecca Kukla examines the present-day medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. In the late eighteenth century, the configuration of the maternal body underwent a radical transformation and the two maternal bodies that emerged out of this transformation still govern our imagination and rituals surrounding pregnancy and lactation. Exploring the history and the current life of these two maternal bodies within medical institutions, popular culture, and politics, Kukla offers a critical assessment of the lived repercussions of these ideological figures and practices for contemporary women's and infants' health and well-being."--Jacket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Kukla, Rebecca, 1969- Mass hysteria. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2005
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2005012497
ISBN0742533573 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN9780742533578 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN0742533581 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN9780742533585 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Stock number2229143

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