Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Deborah S. Wilson and Christine Moneera Laennec
I. The Disciplined Body
1. Female Bodies Misbehaving: Mortification in Early Modern English Domestic Texts
Torri L. Thompson
2. Romance, Finance, and the Marketable Woman: The Economics of Femininity in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century English Novels
Julie Shaffer
II. The Body Beautiful
3. Molding Women's Bodies: The Surgeon As Sculptor
Alice E. Adams
4. The "Assembly-Line Love Goddess": Women and the Machine Aesthetic in Fashion Photography, 19181940
Christine Moneera Laennec
III. The Maternal Body
5. Technologies of Misogyny: The Transparent Maternal Body and Alternate Reproductions in Frankenstein, Dracula , and Some Selected Media Discourses
Deborah S. Wilson
6. Sexual Silencing: Anesthetizing Women's Voices in Childbirth, 19101960
Cynthia Huff
IV. The Body-Mind Connection
7. Locke, Disembodied Ideas, and Rhetoric That Matters
Catherine Hobbs
8. "I've Got You Under My Skin": Cyber(sexed) Bodies in Cyberpunk Fictions
Cathy Peppers
9. Will the Reel Woman in Body Double Please Stand Up?
Roberta Schreyer
V. Disease in the Body Politic
10. Women and AIDS: Bodily Representations, Political Repercussions
Susanmarie Harrington
11. Conflicts in AIDS Discourse: Foucault, Surgeon Generals, and the [Gay Men's] Healthcare Crisis
Angela Wall
Contributors
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index