From “Diseases of Women” to “Secrets of Women”: The Transformation of Gynecological Literature in the Later Middle Ages

Green, Monica H.

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“…These forms of diagrams also had sociopolitical implications. The use of a male figure as the normative or default form of the body relegated women's health and obstetrics to other charts, figures, or manuscripts that rarely circulated in tandem with the manuscripts by (and for) men [35]. The humoural framework underlying the diagrams also had consequences (in later eras, for instance, encouraging "heroic" treatments of severe bloodletting and purging [94]).…”

Section: Reasoning About Disease and Dysfunctionmentioning

confidence: 99%

When the Body Became Data: Historical Data Cultures and Anatomical Illustration

Correll,

Garrison

2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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With changing attitudes around knowledge, medicine, art, and technology, the human body has become a source of information and, ultimately, shareable and analyzable data. Centuries of illustrations and visualizations of the body occur within particular historical, social, and political contexts. These contexts are enmeshed in different so-called data cultures: ways that data, knowledge, and information are conceptualized and collected, structured and shared. In this work, we explore how information about the body was collected as well as the circulation, impact, and persuasive force of the resulting images. We show how mindfulness of data cultural influences remain crucial for today's designers, researchers, and consumers of visualizations. We conclude with a call for the field to reflect on how visualizations are not timeless and contextless mirrors on objective data, but as much a product of our time and place as the visualizations of the past. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Visualization theory, concepts and paradigms; Human computer interaction (HCI); • Applied computing → Life and medical sciences.

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Section: Reasoning About Disease and Dysfunctionmentioning

confidence: 99%

When the Body Became Data: Historical Data Cultures and Anatomical Illustration

Correll,

Garrison

2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…At its most extreme, misogynists described the female as being misshapen in the womb, fundamentally different from men created in God's image, and closer in kind to beasts. 8 One aspect of Christine's response, according to Benjamin Semple, is to note the limits of philosophy as a discipline of human thought that is constantly tested and subject to revision. 9 To join this debate, she rejects the essentialist position that "men were essentially created to understand whereas women were essentially created to procreate", as Earl Jeffrey Richards notes, claiming a place for women alongside men in the Field of Letters.…”

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Redressing the Virago in Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la cité des dames

Johnston¹

2012

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“…As feminist historians and cultural theorists have shown, although women may or may not see themselves as actively keeping secrets, in the history of west-ern culture, they ubiquitously have been represented as secretive (Parkins, 2007). For example, western science since the early modern period has conceptualized women's genitalia and generational processes as the domain of secrets, which scientific tools have been harnessed to penetrate and police (Green, 2000). With the rise of consumer culture, commercial interests in fashion and cosmetics have continued to colonize and capitalize on women's apparent beauty secrets, which male purveyors have repackaged as products for expanding female markets.…”

Section: Theorizing Body Secretsmentioning

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Imagining the Other? Ethical Challenges of Researching and Writing Women's Embodied Lives

Rice

2009

Feminism & Psychology

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Feminists influenced by post-conventional and critical perspectives confront a significant challenge when researching women's embodiments: the dilemma of representation. For researchers from positions of bodily privilege, issues of interpretation intensify when researching and writing across physical differences distorted by colonial and other hegemonic histories and legacies. In this article, I draw from interviews with diversely embodied women to discuss difficulties encountered in interpreting their narratives of embodiment. I reflect on strategies of embodied engagement, including de-centring my bodily self, re-visiting my body story, and imagining the other's embodied experiences in the creation of provisional meanings about participants' bodies and lives. To shed light on risks and rewards of researcher-embodied reflexivity to study sensitive subjects such as appearance and difference, I show how analysing my `body secrets' invites deeper exploration into dynamics of bodily privilege and abjection underpinning women's accounts. I conclude by questioning the ethics of my `imaginative leap' into other/ed women's lives and by considering more broadly the perils and possibilities of traversing the space between self and other, and other in the self, within feminist research.

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From “Diseases of Women” to “Secrets of Women”: The Transformation of Gynecological Literature in the Later Middle Ages

Cited by 45 publications

References 18 publications

When the Body Became Data: Historical Data Cultures and Anatomical Illustration

When the Body Became Data: Historical Data Cultures and Anatomical Illustration

Redressing the Virago in Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la cité des dames

Imagining the Other? Ethical Challenges of Researching and Writing Women's Embodied Lives

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