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Medical Authority and Englishwomen’s Herbal Texts, 1550–1650 by Rebecca Laroche is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The first study to analyze print vernacular folio herbals from the standpoint of gender and to present original findings to do with early modern women's ownership of these herbals, Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts also looks at reasons and contexts behind early modern female writers claiming herbal practice. Author Rebecca Laroche first establishes cultural backdrops in the gendering of medical authority that takes place in the herbals and the regular ownership of these herbals by women. She then examines women's engagements with herbal texts in life writings and poetry and asks how these moments represent and engage medical authority. In ultimately demonstrating how female writers variously take on women's herbal medical practices, Laroche reveals the broad range of literary potentials within the historical category of women's medicine.

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Author

Rebecca Laroche

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781138250529

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Medical, Literary Criticism