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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jordanova, L.J. Sexual visions. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1989 (OCoLC)555981764 Online version: Jordanova, L.J. Sexual visions. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1989 (OCoLC)609305547 |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
L J Jordanova |
ISBN: | 0299122905 9780299122904 |
OCLC Number: | 20126617 |
Description: | xiii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction -- Natural facts: an historical perspective on science and sexuality -- Body image and sex roles -- Gender as a cosmic metaphor -- Nature unveiling before science -- Science, machines and gender -- Medical images of the female body. |
Series Title: | Science and literature. |
Responsibility: | Ludmilla Jordanova. |
Abstract:
Demonstrates that gender as a metaphor has had an exceptionally vigorous life in the history of biological and medical sciences.
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