Rethinking the Public Fetus : Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Pregnancy

Rethinking the Public Fetus Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Pregnancy

Exploring a wide variety of visualizations of pregnancy and fetuses through 300 years of history, this timely volume offers a fresh look at the influential feminist concept of the "public fetus."Images of pregnant and fetal bodies are today visible everywhere. Through ultrasound screenings...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Björklund, Elisabet, contributor (contributor), Björklund, Elisabet, editor (editor), Dandona, Jessica M., contributor, Giraud, Anne-Sophie, contributor, Holz, Rose, contributor, Hopwood, Nick, contributor, Jülich, Solveig, contributor, Jülich, Solveig, editor, Kosmin, Jennifer, contributor, Mørk Røstvik, Camilla, contributor, Parry, Manon S., contributor, Ray, Sara, contributor, Rose Holz, Rose, contributor, Røstvik, Camilla Mørk, contributor, Santesmases, María Jesús, contributor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell and Brewer [2024]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Rochester Studies in Medical History Series
Materias:
MEDICAL / History.
Lennart Nilsson.
Peter the Great.
abortion.
catholicism.
medical education.
menstrual art.
miscarriage.
nationalism.
pregnancy.
public menstruation.
reproductive politics.
sex education.
sex hygiene films.
stillbirth.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Rethinking the Public Fetus: An Introduction
  • 1. The Monsters of Peter and Wolff: Anatomical Preparations and Embryology in Eighteenth-Century St. Petersburg
  • 2. "What Does the Eye Have to Do with Obstetrics?" The Fetus between Sight and Touch in Eighteenth-Century Italy
  • 3. Paper Pregnancies: Visualizing the Maternal Body, 1870-1900
  • 4. Biological Bodies, Unfettered Imaginations: The 1939 Dickinson-Belskie Birth Series Sculptures and the Unexpected Origins of Modern Antiabortion Imagery
  • 5. Creating a Public for Visualized Pregnancies: The Swedish Version of the American Sex Hygiene Film Mom and Dad
  • 6. The Drama of the Fetoplacental Unit: Reimagining the Public Fetus of Lennart Nilsson
  • 7. The Public Fetus in Franco's Spain: Women, Doctors, and Feminists in the Circulation of Pregnancy Images
  • 8. Visual Strategies of Antiabortion Activism and Their Feminist Critique: The Public Fetus in the United States
  • 9. Public Menstruation: Visualizing Periods in Art, Activism, and Advertising
  • 10. From "Anatomical Specimen" to "Almost Child": Pictures of Dead Fetuses in France
  • 11. Reproducing Bodies in the Medical Museum: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Fetus on Display
  • 12. The Public Fetus: A Traveling Concept
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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