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Mass Hysteria - (Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities) by Rebecca Kukla (Paperback)

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  • In Mass Hysteria, Rebecca Kukla examines the present-day medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding.
  • About the Author: Rebecca Kukla is an associate professor of philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, as well as an affiliated associate professor at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.
  • 264 Pages
  • Health + Wellness, Pregnancy & Childbirth
  • Series Name: Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities

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Mass Hysteria examines the medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. Late eighteenth century transformations in these practices reshaped mothers' bodies, and contemporary norms and routines of prenatal care and early motherhood h...



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In Mass Hysteria, Rebecca Kukla examines the present-day medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. In the late-eighteenth century, the configuration of the maternal body underwent a radical transformation and the two maternal bodies that emerged out of this transformation still govern our imagination and rituals surrounding pregnancy and lactation. Exploring the history and the current life of these two maternal bodies within medical institutions, popular culture, and politics, Kukla offers a critical assessment of the lived repercussions of these ideological figures and practices for contemporary women's and infants' health and well-being.



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"With sly wit, impressive historical scope and deep moral conviction, Rebecca Kukla brilliantly illuminates modern cultural beliefs and practices about motherhood as an embodied experience. Taking us back into seventeenth century Europe and through the Enlightenment, Kukla deftly and vividly interprets texts and pictures to uncover the historical foundations of the mutually constitutive relationship between maternal bodies and the body politic and to illustrate how this history, no less than contemporarytechnologies, shapes and constrains the lived experience of pregnancy and mothering today. With insights that transcend liberalism and postmodernism, Kukla re-interprets the usual dichotomies?private/public, nature/culture, inner/outer, self/other?and offers a profoundly feminist reading of the fluid, permeable boundaries of maternal bodies. The ?fix? she proposes is one that promises to restore women's integrity, agency and identity both within and without motherhood. <>Mass Hysteria<> is a tour deforce of feminist scholarship." --Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University

"Kukla advances feminist thinking about maternity and breastfeeding...Highly recommended." --Choice Reviews

"A learned, engaging, and lively account." --Hilde Lindemann, Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University, Hastings Center Report

"Packed with material drawn from the history of medicine as well as popular and professional sources....A rich resource." --Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy

"[Kukla's] analysis is occasionally brilliant." --Feminist Collections: A Quarterly Of Women's Studies Resources

"Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture and Mothers' Bodies is articulate, thoughtful, carefully researched and argued. It breaks new ground in both feminist and philosophical scholarship. Kukla encourages us to reflect critically on what mothers expect of themselves, and what society expects of mothers." --Amy Mullin, University of Toronto Mississauga

"With sly wit, impressive historical scope and deep moral conviction, Rebecca Kukla brilliantly illuminates modern cultural beliefs and practices about motherhood as an embodied experience. Taking us back into seventeenth century Europe and through the Enlightenment, Kukla deftly and vividly interprets texts and pictures to uncover the historical foundations of the mutually constitutive relationship between maternal bodies and the body politic and to illustrate how this history, no less than contemporary technologies, shapes and constrains the lived experience of pregnancy and mothering today. With insights that transcend liberalism and postmodernism, Kukla re-interprets the usual dichotomies-private/public, nature/culture, inner/outer, self/other-and offers a profoundly feminist reading of the fluid, permeable boundaries of maternal bodies. The 'fix' she proposes is one that promises to restore women's integrity, agency and identity both within and without motherhood. Mass Hysteria is a tour de force of feminist scholarship." --Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University



With sly wit, impressive historical scope and deep moral conviction, Rebecca Kukla brilliantly illuminates modern cultural beliefs and practices about motherhood as an embodied experience. Taking us back into seventeenth century Europe and through the Enlightenment, Kukla deftly and vividly interprets texts and pictures to uncover the historical foundations of the mutually constitutive relationship between maternal bodies and the body politic and to illustrate how this history, no less than contemporary technologies, shapes and constrains the lived experience of pregnancy and mothering today. With insights that transcend liberalism and postmodernism, Kukla re-interprets the usual dichotomies-private/public, nature/culture, inner/outer, self/other-and offers a profoundly feminist reading of the fluid, permeable boundaries of maternal bodies. The 'fix' she proposes is one that promises to restore women's integrity, agency and identity both within and without motherhood. Mass Hysteria is a tour de force of feminist scholarship.

Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture and Mothers' Bodies is articulate, thoughtful, carefully researched and argued. It breaks new ground in both feminist and philosophical scholarship. Kukla encourages us to reflect critically on what mothers expect of themselves, and what society expects of mothers.

[Kukla's] analysis is occasionally brilliant.

A learned, engaging, and lively account.

Kukla advances feminist thinking about maternity and breastfeeding...Highly recommended.

Packed with material drawn from the history of medicine as well as popular and professional sources....A rich resource.



About the Author



Rebecca Kukla is an associate professor of philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, as well as an affiliated associate professor at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. From 2003-2005, she was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at The Johns Hopkins University. She is the editor of Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy (2006), as well as the author of numerous articles and book chapters.
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Weight: .88 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 264
Genre: Health + Wellness
Sub-Genre: Pregnancy & Childbirth
Series Title: Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
Author: Rebecca Kukla
Language: English
Street Date: October 4, 2005
TCIN: 1004110947
UPC: 9780742533585
Item Number (DPCI): 247-22-4952
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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