Perilous Chastity: Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine

by Laurinda S. Dixon

$30 · Offered by Mullen Books

Ithaca, New York and London: Cornell University Press, 1995. Softcover. Color illus. wraps; 297 pp.; 8 color plates; 101 bw figures. VG. Item #118399 ISBN: 0801482151 Focusing on art from the 13th - 18th centuries, Dixon examines how paintings reflect changing medical theories about women; In particular discusses hysteria, commonly diagnosed in women for centuries, and its changing

• Binding: Softcover

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