Picturing Women's Health [Hardcover]

The essays in this collection examine women in diverse roles; mother, socialite, prostitute, celebrity, medical practitioner and patient. The wide range of commentators allows a diverse picture of womens health in this period.

1. Sensibility and Good Health in Charlotte Smith's Ethelinde 

Joseph Morrissey

2. Amazonian Fashions: Lady Delacour's (Re)Dress in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda 

Andrew McInnes

3. Transforming the Body Politic: Food Reform and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Britain -

Sarah Richardson

4 Stagnation of Air and Mind: Picturing Trauma and Miasma in Charlotte Bronte's Villette 

Alexandra Lewis

5. The Iconography of Anorexia Nervosa in the Long Nineteenth Century 

Susannah Wilson

6. Kate Marsden's Leper Project: On Sledge and Horseback with an Outcast Missionary Nurse 

Tabitha Sparks

7. Constructs of Female Insanity at the Fin de Siecle: The Lawn Hospital, Lincoln, 1882-1902

Katherine Ford

8. The Fitness of the Female Medical Student, 1895-1910 

Claire Brock

9. Unstable Adolescence/Unstable Literature? Managing British Girls' Health around 1900

Hilary Marland

Ji Won Chungis a Ph.D  Candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.