Literary Anatomies

Download or read book Literary Anatomies written by Delese Wear and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how imaginative literature brings women's medical experiences back to lived moments in living bodies, where readers can, perhaps, better understand what it feels like to be someone else. The authors provide four sections that discuss birth, abortion, miscarriage, and fertility; breast cancer; middle age, menopause, and hysterectomy; and aging. While the focus is on twentieth-century North American women, a particular emphasis is placed on the diversity of women's experiences within that time and culture.