Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection

by Katharine Park

Book Overview

Women's bodies and the study of anatomy in Italy between the late thirteenth and the mid-sixteenth centuries.

Toward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began to devote increasing attention to what they called "women's secrets," by which they meant female sexuality and generation. At the same time, Italian physicians and surgeons began to open human bodies in order to study their functions and the illnesses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890951684
• ISBN13: 9781890951689
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher