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Female Bodies and Female Practitioners

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This interdisciplinary volume examines the conceptualization, representation, and agency of women, with a focus on bodies, gynaecology, reproduction, and female expertise in medicine and healthcare...
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This interdisciplinary volume examines the conceptualization, representation, and agency of women, with a focus on bodies, gynaecology, reproduction, and female expertise in medicine and healthcare in texts from the Mediterranean and Middle East during antiquity and into the medieval period.
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Price: £110.20
Pages: 533
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Imprint: Mohr Siebeck
Series: Ancient Cultures of Sciences and Knowledge
Publication Date: 03 May 2024
ISBN: 9783161622908
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Roman religion and mythology, HISTORY / Ancient / General, RELIGION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, RELIGION / Ancient, HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, Ancient history, Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology, Religion: general, Ancient Greek religion and mythology

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I. Conceived Conceptions and Conceptual Controversies
Lennart Lehmhaus: Re-reading Gynaecology in the Ancient World - a Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Survey - Lennart Lehmhaus: Female bodies, Gynaecology, and Women's Medical Knowledge and Practice in Ancient Cultures - a Select Bibliography

II. To Cultivate a Field - Thinking about Women's Bodies in Different Traditions
Tanja Pommerening: The Female Body in Ancient Egypt: Sources, Terminology, and Concepts - Siam Bhayro: Gynaecology in Syriac Sources: Theory and Practice - Carmen Caballero Navas: Greco-Latin Gynecology in Jewish Robes: The Hebrew Translation of Muscio's Gynaecia

III. Theorizing Sex, Sexuality and the Female Body
Ulrike Steinert: Created to Bleed: Blood, Women's Bodies, and Gender in Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine - Marzia Soardi: Some Aspects of Aristotle's Gynaecological Considerations - Shanah Strauch Schick: Do Women Emit Seed? Theories of Embryogenesis and the Regulation of Female Masturbation in Rabbinic Literature - Tirzah Meacham: Pregnancy of Minor Girls, Superfetation, and Pregnancy during Lactation in Rabbinic Literature

IV. Silenced Voices and Objectified Bodies - Women as Practitioners and Practices Applied to Women's Bodies
Monika Amsler: Goats or Babies?! A Critical Evaluation of the Teachings by Abaye's Mother (b. Šabbat 134a) and the Relationship between Veterinary and Human Medicine in the Talmud - Tal Ilan: Salome's Medicinal Recipes and Jewish Women Doctors in Antiquity - Samuel Kottek: Caesarean Section in the Talmud: A Renewed Examination of a Historical Enigma - Irene Calà: A Short Remark on the Sixteenth Book of Aetius Amidenus's Libri medicinales: The Case of the Clitoridectomy - Julia Kelto Lillis: Late Ancient Christians and the Rise of Medically Perceptible Virginity