Spongberg mary (176 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, card covers, ix + 308pp. First printing, paperback issue. VG+: clean, bright and tight with a miniscule scuff to the foot of the rear cover, an atom of a spot to the head of the fore-edge. Very attractive.

Condizione: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In 1497 the local council of a small town in Scotland issued an order that all light women--women suspected of prostitution-- be branded with a hot iron on their face. In late eighteenth- century England, the body of the prostitute became almost synonymous with venereal disease as doctors drew up detailed descriptions of the abnormal and degenerate traits of fallen women. Throughout much of history, popular and medical knowledge has held women, especially promiscuous women, as the source of venereal disease. In Feminizing Venereal Disease, Mary Spongberg provides a critical examination of this practice by examining the construction of venereal disease in 19th century Britain. Spongberg argues that despite the efforts of doctors to treat medicine as a pure science, medical knowledge was greatly influenced by cultural assumptions and social and moral codes. By revealing the symbolic importance of the prostitute as the source of social disease in Victorian England, Spongberg presents a forceful argument about the gendering of nineteenth- century medicine.In a fascinating use of history to 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 that AIDS, like syphilis in the nineteenth century, has become a feminized disease.…

Condizione: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Feminizing Venereal Disease: The Body of the Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse. Book.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condizione: New. In 1497 the local council of a small town in Scotland issued an order that all light women--women suspected of prostitution-- be branded with a hot iron on their face. In late eighteenth- century England, the body of the prostitute became almost synonymous with venereal disease as doctors drew up detailed descriptions of the abnormal and degenerate traits of fallen women. Throughout much of history, popular and medical knowledge has held women, especially promiscuous women, as the source of venereal disease. In Feminizing Venereal Disease, Mary Spongberg provides a critical examination of this practice by examining the construction of venereal disease in 19th century Britain. Spongberg argues that despite the efforts of doctors to treat medicine as a pure science, medical knowledge was greatly influenced by cultural assumptions and social and moral codes. By revealing the symbolic importance of the prostitute as the source of social disease in Victorian England, Spongberg presents a forceful argument about the gendering of nineteenth- century medicine.In a fascinating use of history to 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 that AIDS, like syphilis in the nineteenth century, has become a feminized disease.…

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. pp. 248.

Condizione: New. pp. 248.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 1790 saw the publication of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France -- the definitive tract of modern conservatism as a political philosophy. Though women of the period wrote texts that clearly responded to and reacted against Burke's conception of English history and to the contemporary political events that continued to shape it, this conversation was largely ignored or dismissed, and much of it remains to be reconsidered today.Examining the works of women writers from Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft to the Strickland sisters and Mary Anne Everett Green, this book begins to recuperate that conversation and in doing so uncovers a more complete and nuanced picture of women's participation in the writing of history. Professor Mary Spongberg puts forward an alternate, feminized historiography of Britain that demonstrates how women writers' recourse to history caused them to become generically innovative and allowed them to participate in the political debates that framed the emergence of modern British historiography, and to push back against the Whig interpretation of history that predominated from 1790-1860.…

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

1st edn. 8vo. Original laminated pictorial boards (Fine). Pp. x + 174 (no inscriptions).

Condizione: New. In English.

Condizione: New.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st British Edition. Glossy paperback cover. as new. x + 231, 5 ills on 4 pp. ex-pagination; prev. owner's small 2003-dated sig. top half-title otherwise as new. A US edition published 1998. Despite pub. code and 10 digit ISN verso t.p. this has 13 digit ISBN to back cover, which is odd as these were allegedly introduced in 2007. 13.5 cm x 21 cm.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. :: Surveys historical writings in which women have engaged, including biographical and autobiographical, historical fictions, letter-writing, travelogue, and more conventional. :: Interpretive essays from almost 60 contributors. :: Reference, hefty pictorial hardcover. Octavo (9 1/4 x 6 3/16 inches; 235 x 157 millimeters). 712 pages. Condition: Very Good-. Scuffs at top of spine, bumped bottom left corner of spine. Light soiling to text block. Interior clean, square, tight.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence to suggest that women have engaged in historical writing since ancient times.This study traces the history of women's historical writing, reclaiming the lives of individual women historians, recovering women's historical writings from the past and focusing on how gender has shaped the genre of history. Mary Spongberg brings together for the first time an extensive survey of the progress of women's historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, demonstrating the continuities between women's historical writings in the past and the development of a distinctly woman-centred historiography.Writing Women's History since the Renaissance also examines the relationship between women's history and the development of feminist consciousness, suggesting that the study of history has alerted women to their unequal status and enabled them to use history to achieve women's rights. Whether feminist or anti-feminist, women who have had their historical writings published have served as role models for women seeking a voice in the public sphere and have been instrumental in encouraging the growth of a feminist discourse.…

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Text clean and tight; no dust jacket; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 248 pages.

Condizione: New.

hardcover. Condizione: As New. Never read, no marks or highlighting in the text. Our copy is hardback with printed covers, showing light shelfwear.

Hardback. Light soiling to page edges, otherwise very good. xvii + 712pp.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 240 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.