Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts, 1550-1650 (Hardcover, New Ed)

The first study to analyze print vernacular folio herbals from the standpoint of gender and to present original findings to do with early modern women's ownership of these herbals, Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts also looks at reasons and contexts behind early modern female writers claiming herbal practice. Author Rebecca Laroche first establishes cultural backdrops in the gendering of medical authority that takes place in the herbals and the regular ownership of these herbals by women. She then examines women's engagements with herbal texts in life writings and poetry and asks how these moments represent and engage medical authority. In ultimately demonstrating how female writers variously take on women's herbal medical practices, Laroche reveals the broad range of literary potentials within the historical category of women's medicine.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
Release date:	December 2009
First published:	2009
Authors:	Rebecca Laroche
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	208
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7546-6678-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
LSN:	0-7546-6678-6
Barcode:	9780754666783

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