Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries

by Ludmilla Jordanova

Book Overview

In six interdisciplinary and wide-ranging essays, Ludmilla Jordanova analyzes scientific and medical representations of gender in advertising, paintings, film, literature, sculpture, wax anatomical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299122905
• ISBN13: 9780299122904
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

the unveiling of women

If you are interested in womens role in art and science then this book is definitely for you. This book is hard to put down as each essay involves you in an articulate vision of how women were involved in dissection, wax modelling etc in the eighteen and nineteeth century.It explains how acts of violence were (and still today) are acted upon womens body to find the truth about science for doctors and scientists knowledge. Also about the unveiling of women and how this involves man and the scientific field.