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Picturing Women's Health
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Picturing Women's Health
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Picturing Women's Health book
ByJi Won Chung
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 4 August 2015
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 224
eBook ISBN 9781315654508
Subjects Language & Literature
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Chung, J.W. (2014). Picturing Women's Health (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315654508
ABSTRACT
The essays in this collection examine women in diverse roles; mother, socialite, prostitute, celebrity, medical practitioner and patient. The wide range of commentators allows a diverse picture of women’s health in this period.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Introduction: Picturing Women’s Health – Francesca Scott, Kate Scarth
ByJi Won Chung
chapter 2|16 pages
Amazonian Fashions: Lady Delacour’s (Re)Dress in Maria Edgeworth’s
ByBelinda – Andrew McInnes
chapter 3|14 pages
Transforming the Body Politic: Food Reform and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Britain – Sarah Richardson
ByJi Won Chung
chapter 4|18 pages
Stagnation of Air and Mind: Picturing Trauma and Miasma in Charlotte Brontë's Villette
ByBrontë’s Villette – Alexandra Lewis
chapter 5|28 pages
The Iconography of Anorexia Nervosa in the Long Nineteenth Century
By– Susannah Wilson
chapter 6|14 pages
Kate Marsden’s Leper Project: On Sledge and Horseback with an Outcast Missionary Nurse – Tabitha Sparks
ByJi Won Chung
chapter 7|20 pages
Constructs of Female Insanity at the Fin de Siècle: e Lawn Hospital,
ByLincoln, 1882–1902 – Katherine Ford
chapter 9|14 pages
Unstable Adolescence/Unstable Literature? Managing British Girls’ Health around 1900 – Hilary Marland
ByJi Won Chung
