RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric. From Hysteria to Hormones : : A Rhetorical History / / Amy Koerber.
In From Hysteria to Hormones, Amy Koerber 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.Shortly after Ernest Henry Starling coined the term “hormone” in 1905, hormones be...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 8 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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