From hysteria to hormones : a rhetorical history /
Koerber, Amy
From hysteria to hormones : a rhetorical history / Amy Koerber. - University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (xxi, 239 pages) - RSA STR : the RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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.
9780271081557 9780271081571
Women--Health and hygiene--History.
Hormones--History.
Hysteria--History.
Rhetoric.
Electronic Books.
RA564 / .F766 2018
From hysteria to hormones : a rhetorical history / Amy Koerber. - University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (xxi, 239 pages) - RSA STR : the RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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.
9780271081557 9780271081571
Women--Health and hygiene--History.
Hormones--History.
Hysteria--History.
Rhetoric.
Electronic Books.
RA564 / .F766 2018