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3. Paper Pregnancies: Visualizing the Maternal Body, 1870–1900
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Rethinking the Public Fetus: An Introduction 1
- 1. The Monsters of Peter and Wolff: Anatomical Preparations and Embryology in Eighteenth-Century St. Petersburg 22
- 2. “What Does the Eye Have to Do with Obstetrics?” The Fetus between Sight and Touch in Eighteenth-Century Italy 45
- 3. Paper Pregnancies: Visualizing the Maternal Body, 1870–1900 69
- 4. Biological Bodies, Unfettered Imaginations: The 1939 Dickinson-Belskie Birth Series Sculptures and the Unexpected Origins of Modern Antiabortion Imagery 94
- 5. Creating a Public for Visualized Pregnancies: The Swedish Version of the American Sex Hygiene Film Mom and Dad 119
- 6. The Drama of the Fetoplacental Unit: Reimagining the Public Fetus of Lennart Nilsson 143
- 7. The Public Fetus in Franco’s Spain: Women, Doctors, and Feminists in the Circulation of Pregnancy Images 171
- 8. Visual Strategies of Antiabortion Activism and Their Feminist Critique: The Public Fetus in the United States 193
- 9. Public Menstruation: Visualizing Periods in Art, Activism, and Advertising 225
- 10. From “Anatomical Specimen” to “Almost Child”: Pictures of Dead Fetuses in France 243
- 11. Reproducing Bodies in the Medical Museum: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Fetus on Display 265
- 12. The Public Fetus: A Traveling Concept 289
- Selected Bibliography 311
- Notes on Contributors 329
- Index 333
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Rethinking the Public Fetus: An Introduction 1
- 1. The Monsters of Peter and Wolff: Anatomical Preparations and Embryology in Eighteenth-Century St. Petersburg 22
- 2. “What Does the Eye Have to Do with Obstetrics?” The Fetus between Sight and Touch in Eighteenth-Century Italy 45
- 3. Paper Pregnancies: Visualizing the Maternal Body, 1870–1900 69
- 4. Biological Bodies, Unfettered Imaginations: The 1939 Dickinson-Belskie Birth Series Sculptures and the Unexpected Origins of Modern Antiabortion Imagery 94
- 5. Creating a Public for Visualized Pregnancies: The Swedish Version of the American Sex Hygiene Film Mom and Dad 119
- 6. The Drama of the Fetoplacental Unit: Reimagining the Public Fetus of Lennart Nilsson 143
- 7. The Public Fetus in Franco’s Spain: Women, Doctors, and Feminists in the Circulation of Pregnancy Images 171
- 8. Visual Strategies of Antiabortion Activism and Their Feminist Critique: The Public Fetus in the United States 193
- 9. Public Menstruation: Visualizing Periods in Art, Activism, and Advertising 225
- 10. From “Anatomical Specimen” to “Almost Child”: Pictures of Dead Fetuses in France 243
- 11. Reproducing Bodies in the Medical Museum: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Fetus on Display 265
- 12. The Public Fetus: A Traveling Concept 289
- Selected Bibliography 311
- Notes on Contributors 329
- Index 333