From Hysteria to Hormones : A Rhetorical History

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Hormones and Hysteria: A Rhetorical Topology -- 2 Hysteria from Ancient Texts until the Nineteenth Century: The Womb as Topological Space -- 3 Charcot’s Circus: Nineteenth-Century Science of Hysteria as a Moment of Stasis --...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Hormones and Hysteria: A Rhetorical Topology -- 2 Hysteria from Ancient Texts until the Nineteenth Century: The Womb as Topological Space -- 3 Charcot’s Circus: Nineteenth-Century Science of Hysteria as a Moment of Stasis -- 4 Stasis Unsettled: The Early Twentieth-Century Rise of Endocrinology -- 5 Topology of Sex Difference: A Long History of Men Saying Outrageous Things about Women’s Reproductive Organs -- 6 Illuminating Women: Metaphor and Movement after Centuries of “Groping in the Dark” -- 7 This Is Your [Female] Brain on Hormones: Enthymeme in Contemporary Discourse -- 8 From Hysteria to Hormones -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung