Koerber, Amy <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780271081557 9780271081571 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--Health and hygiene--History.<br/>Hormones--History.<br/>Hysteria--History.<br/>Rhetoric.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA564  / .F766 2018