TY - BOOK AU - Koerber,Amy TI - From hysteria to hormones: a rhetorical history T2 - RSA STR : the RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric SN - 9780271081557 AV - RA564 .F766 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - University Park, Pennsylvania PB - The Pennsylvania State University Press KW - Women KW - Health and hygiene KW - History KW - Hormones KW - Hysteria KW - Rhetoric KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - "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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1798337&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -