Generating bodies and gendered selves : the rhetoric of reproduction in early modern England / Eve Keller.

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2007], ©2007.

xi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

"A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book."

On either side of the early modern: posthuman and premodern bodies and selves -- Subjectified parts and supervenient selves: rewriting galenism in Crooke's microcosmographia -- Fixing the female: books of practical physic for women -- Making up for losses: the workings of gender in Harvey's De Generatione Animalium -- Embryonic individuals: mechanism, embryology, and modern man -- The masculine subject of touch: case histories from the birthing room.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-238) and index.