From 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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| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.
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Table of 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.