(P)Rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship

by Stephanie Peebles Tavera

(P)rescription Narratives reveals how the act of narrative creates the subjects of disability, race, and gender during a period of censorship in American history. In a Crip Affect reading of woman-authored medical fiction from the Comstock law era, this book astutely argues that women writers of medical fiction practice storytelling as a form of narrative medicine that prescribes various forms of healing as an antidote to the shame engineered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147449319X
• ISBN13: 9781474493192
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"