東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

The Woman Question and the Man Answe...

Schadl, Suzanne Michele.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

The Woman Question and the Man Answer in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Ideas on race, class, and sex in medicine and literary naturalism.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Woman Question and the Man Answer in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Ideas on race, class, and sex in medicine and literary naturalism./
Author:	Schadl, Suzanne Michele.
Description:	299 p.
Notes:	Chairperson: Judy A. Bieber.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-02A.
Subject:	History of Science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3041984
ISBN:	0493555870

The Woman Question and the Man Answer in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Ideas on race, class, and sex in medicine and literary naturalism.
Schadl, Suzanne Michele.

The Woman Question and the Man Answer in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Ideas on race, class, and sex in medicine and literary naturalism. - 299 p.

Chairperson: Judy A. Bieber.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2002.

During the nineteenth century, Brazilian men of science used experimental methods to transform age-old superstitions and prejudices into what they believed were objective facts. In the process, these men reduced women and blacks to blank pages upon which they inscribed their expertise and practiced their craft. Physicians pondered whether the fertility of the Brazilian environment could translate into the reproduction of white national citizens and what they hoped might be the gradual dilution of black races. Meanwhile, Brazil's premier literary naturalist, Aluísio Azevedo, predicted the emergence of a new Brazilian people in his novel, <italic>O cortiço </italic> (1890). European immigration, female reproduction, and urban growth took center stage as these men of science tried to determine and influence Brazil's promise for the future.

ISBN: 0493555870Subjects--Topical Terms:

896972
History of Science.

The Woman Question and the Man Answer in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Ideas on race, class, and sex in medicine and literary naturalism.
LDR:03311nam 2200313 a 45 001 932798
005 20110505
008 110505s2002 eng d
020 $a 0493555870
035 $a (UnM)AAI3041984
035 $a AAI3041984
040 $a UnM $c UnM
100 1 $a Schadl, Suzanne Michele. $3 1256541
245 1 0 $a The Woman Question and the Man Answer in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Ideas on race, class, and sex in medicine and literary naturalism.
300 $a 299 p.
500 $a Chairperson: Judy A. Bieber.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-02, Section: A, page: 0722.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2002.
520 $a During the nineteenth century, Brazilian men of science used experimental methods to transform age-old superstitions and prejudices into what they believed were objective facts. In the process, these men reduced women and blacks to blank pages upon which they inscribed their expertise and practiced their craft. Physicians pondered whether the fertility of the Brazilian environment could translate into the reproduction of white national citizens and what they hoped might be the gradual dilution of black races. Meanwhile, Brazil's premier literary naturalist, Aluísio Azevedo, predicted the emergence of a new Brazilian people in his novel, <italic>O cortiço </italic> (1890). European immigration, female reproduction, and urban growth took center stage as these men of science tried to determine and influence Brazil's promise for the future.
520 $a This dissertation examines nineteenth-century medical and literary naturalist rhetoric to reveal how scientifically minded men in Rio de Janeiro used experimentation to confirm preexisting cultural myths regarding race and gender. Medical students and professors in the city became increasingly interested in puberty, pregnancy, and childbirth throughout the nineteenth century. They felt that they could help white women conceive, birth, and nurture national citizens with greater success. They also alluded to a process of whitening whereby virile white men would inject what were thought to be superior genes into black and mulatto women for the purpose of creating whiter Brazilian offspring. There were problems, however. Upper-class European women appeared unable to carry and birth healthy children in Rio de Janeiro's tropical climate, while black and mulatto women seemed to have better reproductive health, but appeared to abort and/or abandon their children more frequently. Medical advances in the 1850s and 1860s made physicians increasingly confident of their ability to help all women by answering what nineteenth-century intellectuals in Europe called the Woman Question with what I call the Man Answer—a distinctively male response to women's perceived problems. Azevedo echoed many of their conclusions in <italic>O cortiço</italic>, often transposing presumed female maladies onto the social body.
590 $a School code: 0142.
650 4 $a History of Science. $3 896972
650 4 $a History, Latin American. $3 1017580
650 4 $a Literature, Latin American. $3 1024734
650 4 $a Women's Studies. $3 1017481
690 $a 0312
690 $a 0336
690 $a 0453
690 $a 0585
710 2 0 $a The University of New Mexico. $3 1018024
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 63-02A.
790 $a 0142
790 1 0 $a Bieber, Judy A., $e advisor
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2002
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3041984