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Seeing Her Sex: Medical Archives and the Female Body (Critical Image) [Paperback]

Roberta McGrath (Author)

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Through a detailed analysis of exterior and interior images of the female body, this book questions how the visual representation of women has been used to remove women's bodies from varying discourses, especially in relation to the matter of generation and reproduction. Roberta McGrath examines the relationship between human reproduction and cultural representation from 1750-1910, taking examples from medical archives, covering engraving, photography, radiography and microscopy. The book is interdisciplinary in approach, ranging across feminist theory, history of medicine and philosophy of science, as well as the history of photography. It argues that these historical images - shocking, erroneous, provocative - are absolutely crucial in understanding how the subject of human generation has now become the corporate and government-funded science of reproductive biotechnology.

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Roberta McGrath is an Associate Lecturer in Photographic Theory and Criticism at Napier University, Edinburgh
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Structural qualities, cellular tissues, which form the business of technology and medicine are all much more closely related to the camera than to the atmospheric landscape or the expressive portrait. Read the first page
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