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Author:   Dr Elisabet Björklund ,  Professor Solveig Jülich ,  Jessica M. Dandona ,  Dr Anne-Sophie Giraud
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   University of Rochester Press
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781648250712

ISBN 10:   1648250718
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   16 January 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Acknowledgments Rethinking the Public Fetus: An Introduction Elisabet Björklund and Solveig Jülich 1. The Monsters of Peter and Wolff: Anatomical Preparations and Embryology in Eighteenth-Century St. Petersburg - Sara Ray 2. ""What Does the Eye Have to Do with Obstetrics?"" The Fetus between Sight and Touch in Eighteenth-Century Italy - Jennifer Kosmin 3. Paper Pregnancies: Visualizing the Maternal Body, 1870-1900 - Jessica M. Dandona 4. Biological Bodies, Unfettered Imaginations: The 1939 Dickinson-Belskie Birth Series Sculptures and the Unexpected Origins of Modern Antiabortion Imagery - Rose Holz 5. Creating a Public for Visualized Pregnancies: The Swedish Version of the American Sex Hygiene Film Mom and Dad (1944) - Elisabet Björklund 6. The Drama of the Fetoplacental Unit: Reimagining the Public Fetus of Lennart Nilsson - Solveig Jülich 7. The Public Fetus in Franco's Spain: Women, Doctors, and Feminists in the Circulation of Pregnancy Images - María Jesús Santesmases 8. Visual Strategies of Antiabortion Activism and Their Feminist Critique: The Public Fetus in the United States - Nick Hopwood 9. Public Menstruation: Visualizing Periods in Art, Activism, and Advertising - Camilla Mørk Røstvik 10. From ""Anatomical Specimen"" to ""Almost Child"": Pictures of Dead Fetuses in France - Anne-Sophie Giraud 11. Reproducing Bodies in the Medical Museum: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Fetus on Display - Manon S. Parry 12. The Public Fetus: A Traveling Concept - Solveig Jülich and Elisabet Björklund List of Contributors Selected Bibliography Index"

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ELISABET BJÖRKLUND is associate professor in film studies at Lund University, Sweden. SOLVEIG JÜLICH is professor of history of science and ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden.

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