Feminizing venereal disease: the body of the prostitute in nineteenth-century medical discourse

Feminizing Venereal Disease traces the medicalization of the prostitute as a symbolic source of social disease - the ordinary sick body - of Victorian England. In doing so it presents a forceful argument about the gendering of nineteenth-century medicine, drawing out the inter-relationship between c...

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1. Verfasser: Spongberg, Mary 1965- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington Square, NY New York Univ. Press 1997
Ausgabe:1. publ. in the U.S.A.
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Zusammenfassung:Feminizing Venereal Disease traces the medicalization of the prostitute as a symbolic source of social disease - the ordinary sick body - of Victorian England. In doing so it presents a forceful argument about the gendering of nineteenth-century medicine, drawing out the inter-relationship between concepts of femininity, public health regulations and the state. A fascinating example of how history can enlighten contemporary discourse, the book concludes with a compelling discussion of the impact of Victorian notions of the body on current discussions of HIV/AIDS, arguing convincingly that AIDS, like syphilis in the nineteenth century, has become a feminized disease.
Beschreibung:X, 231 S. Ill.
ISBN:0814780601

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