The visible woman : imaging technologies, gender, and science / edited by Paula A. Treichler, Lisa Cartwright, and Constance Penley.

[New York] : New York University Press, [1998], ©1998.

vii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction : paradoxes of visiblity / Paula A. Treichler, Lisa Cartwright, and Constance Penley -- A cultural anatomy of the visible human project / Lisa Cartwright -- The end of the road : gender, the dissemination of knowledge, and the American campaign against venereal disease during World War I / Stacie A. Colwell -- Maybe next year : feminist silence and the AIDS epidemic / Paula A. Treichler and Catherine A. Warren -- Beyond "The Yentl syndrome" : making women visible in post-1990 women's health discourse / Anne K. Eckman -- Shooting the mother : fetal photography and the politics of disappearance / Carol Stabile -- Fetal exposures : abortion politics and the optics of allusion / Valerie Hartouni -- Mothers and authors : Johnson v. Calvert and the new children of our imaginations / Mark Rose -- "Lasers for ladies" endo discourse and the inscription of science / Ella Shohat -- Living on disability : language and social policy in the wake of the ADA / Michael Bérubé and Janet Lyon -- The empire strikes back : a posttransexual manifesto / Sandy Stone -- Beating the meat/surviving the text, or How to get out of this century alive / Vivian Sobchack -- Corporeal flows : the immune system, global economies of food, and new implications for health / Richard A. Cone and Emily Martin -- Tales from the cyrpt: contamination and quaratine in Todd Hayne's [Safe] / Gaye Naismith

Includes bibliographical references and index