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Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves: The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England

Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves: The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England Book Reviews / Early Science and Medicine 13 (2008) 384­415 405 Eve Keller, Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves: The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England (In Vivo: Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science) (Seattle: Uni- versity of Washington Press, 2007), pp. 232, 11 illus., $30.00, ISBN 0 295 98641 7. This book will take its place in an influential group of recent publications centering on the emergence of what Eve Keller calls “the modern western liberal subject,” that is, the psycho-physiological entity, or human body-mind, which in seventeenth- century England was beginning to be called a “self.” Other “body” books in this group include Gail Kern Paster’s The Body Embarrassed (1993) and Humoring the Body (2004), Jonathan Sawday’s The Body Emblazoned (1995), and Michael Schoenfeldt’s Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England and David Hillman and Carla Mazzio’s collection, The Body in Parts , both appearing in 1999. What distinguishes Eve Keller’s contribution is her attempt to combine the approaches of medical and social historians on the one hand with those of literary scholars on the other in a nuanced delineation of gendered models of the self that were integral in shaping representations of the early modern body http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early Science and Medicine Brill

Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves: The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England

Early Science and Medicine , Volume 13 (4): 405 – Jan 1, 2008

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Brill
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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1383-7427
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1573-3823
DOI
10.1163/138374208X313557
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Book Reviews / Early Science and Medicine 13 (2008) 384­415 405 Eve Keller, Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves: The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England (In Vivo: Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science) (Seattle: Uni- versity of Washington Press, 2007), pp. 232, 11 illus., $30.00, ISBN 0 295 98641 7. This book will take its place in an influential group of recent publications centering on the emergence of what Eve Keller calls “the modern western liberal subject,” that is, the psycho-physiological entity, or human body-mind, which in seventeenth- century England was beginning to be called a “self.” Other “body” books in this group include Gail Kern Paster’s The Body Embarrassed (1993) and Humoring the Body (2004), Jonathan Sawday’s The Body Emblazoned (1995), and Michael Schoenfeldt’s Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England and David Hillman and Carla Mazzio’s collection, The Body in Parts , both appearing in 1999. What distinguishes Eve Keller’s contribution is her attempt to combine the approaches of medical and social historians on the one hand with those of literary scholars on the other in a nuanced delineation of gendered models of the self that were integral in shaping representations of the early modern body

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Published: Jan 1, 2008

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