Screen LibraryFrom hysteria to hormones : a rhetorical history /
"Examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word 'hormone' and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women's health"--Provided by publisher.
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The Pennsylvania State University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | University Park, Pennsylvania : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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RSA STR : the RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric
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| Summary: |
"Examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word 'hormone' and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women's health"--Provided by publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-233) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780271080857 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : 027108085X (hardcover : alkaline paper) 9780271080864 (paperback) 0271080868 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | RA564 |
| CLC: |
R749.7-09 R173-09 |
| Call Number: | R173-09/K784 |
| Contents: | Hormones and hysteria : a rhetorical topology -- Hysteria from ancient texts until the nineteenth century : the womb as topological space -- Charcot's circus : nineteenth-century science of hysteria as a moment of stasis -- Stasis unsettled : the early twentieth-century rise of endocrinology -- Topology of sex difference : a long history of men saying outrageous things about women's reproductive organs -- Illuminating women : metaphor and movement after centuries of "groping in the dark" -- This is your [female] brain on hormones : enthymeme in contemporary discourse -- From hysteria to hormones. |