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Title: FEMINIZING VENEREAL DISEASE
THE BODY OF THE PROSTITUTE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY MEDICAL DISCOURSE
By: Mary Spongberg
Format: Hardback

List price: £80.00


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ISBN 10: 0814780601
ISBN 13: 9780814780602
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 January, 1997
Pages: 240
Description: Spongberg (women's history, Macqurie U., Australia) explores how the perceived source of disease contamination contracted from all women's bodies to those just of fallen women between the late 18th and 20th centuries. Drawing on modern AIDS-related cultural studies, she discusses such aspects as re
Synopsis: In 1497 the local council of a small town in Scotland issued an order that all light women--women suspected of prostitution-- be branded with a hot iron on their face. In late eighteenth- century England, the body of the prostitute became almost synonymous with venereal disease as doctors drew up detailed descriptions of the abnormal and degenerate traits of fallen women. Throughout much of history, popular and medical knowledge has held women, especially promiscuous women, as the source of venereal disease. In Feminizing Venereal Disease, Mary Spongberg provides a critical examination of this practice by examining the construction of venereal disease in 19th century Britain. Spongberg argues that despite the efforts of doctors to treat medicine as a pure science, medical knowledge was greatly influenced by cultural assumptions and social and moral codes. By revealing the symbolic importance of the prostitute as the source of social disease in Victorian England, Spongberg presents a forceful argument about the gendering of nineteenth- century medicine.In a fascinating use of history to enlighten contemporary discourse, the book concludes with a compelling discussion of the impact of Victorian notions of the body on current discussions of HIV/AIDS, arguing that AIDS, like syphilis in the nineteenth century, has become a feminized disease.
Illustrations: Illustrations
Publication: US
Imprint: New York University Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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