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By Sondra Archimedes

Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the pathologized lady physique when it comes to biomedical discourses approximately gender and society in Victorian England. in accordance with clinical and clinical perspectives of the interval, the girl who didn't agree to the dictates of gender ideology was once, biologically conversing, aberrant: a deviation from the norm. but, even though marginalized in a social feel, the "deviant" girl was once critical as a literary and cultural trope. studying novels by way of Charles Dickens, H. Rider Haggard, and Thomas Hardy along Foucault's inspiration of perverse sexualities and Herbert Spencer's version of the social organism, Archimedes argues that the pathologized girl physique displaces or resolves, on a story point, better cultural anxieties concerning the well-being of the British as a species. whereas past feminist investigations asserted that bourgeois ideology helped to build medical discourses approximately lady sexuality and social behavior, this examine takes those assertions as a kick off point . analyzing incest, racial stereotyping, and neurasthenia, Gendered Pathologies attempts to make clear the ways that organic considering permeated British tradition within the moment half the 19th century.

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