Breasts in the Bullring: Female Physiology, Women Bullfighters and Competing Femininities 1

The Bolshevik takeover of Russia in 1917 initiated a major transformation of the position of women in Russian society as a result of its stress on universal contribution to economic production. As expectations for women shifted, anxieties about the nature of society and relationships increased. Soviet criminologists addressed these anxieties and helped to reinforce women’s traditional position in Soviet society by emphasizing the backwardness of women and the influence of female physiology on their criminal activity. This chapter traces the ways that Russian and Soviet criminologists adapted European ideas and created new criminological institutions to suit the political, ideological, and environmental conditions in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It then explores how those ideas were applied to explain female criminal deviance, arguing that criminologists remained committed to physiological explanations of female offending even as they embraced sociological interpretations of crime.

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Medicine and Pharmacy for Women. The Encounter of Jewish Thinking and Practices with the Arabic and Christian Medical Traditions

European Review ◽

10.1017/s1062798708000197 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 249-259 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Carmen Caballero-Navas

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

The Body ◽

Jewish Communities ◽

Medical Activity ◽

Healthcare It ◽

Health And Disease ◽

Medical Traditions ◽

Integrated Or ◽

Female Physiology ◽

The Middle Ages

This article presents a brief analysis of the ways in which women’s healthcare was understood by medieval Jews, as well as how this sphere of medical activity was learned, practised and disseminated among western Jewish communities during the Middle Ages. It examines the paths of transmission and reception of theories and notions of female physiology, health and disease within the Hebrew medical corpus, and it analyses the influence of the Arabic and Latin traditions in this process. In connection with the understanding of women’s healthcare, it pays some attention to adornment and decoration of the body, as part of the technology that focused on intervening in the functioning of the body. It also discusses succinctly the process through which medical ideas and concepts, as well as healing practices, were received, and integrated or refused, by Jews.

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Androgen receptor functions in male and female physiology

The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ◽

10.1016/j.jsbmb.2008.03.023 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 109 (3-5) ◽

pp. 236-241 ◽

Cited By ~ 58

Author(s):

Takahiro Matsumoto ◽

Hiroko Shiina ◽

Hirotaka Kawano ◽

Takashi Sato ◽

Shigeaki Kato

Keyword(s):

Androgen Receptor ◽

Male And Female ◽

Female Physiology

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RECENT ADVANCES IN FEMALE PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY

Fundamental and Clinical Medicine ◽

10.23946/2500-0764-2017-2-3-63-69 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 63-69

Author(s):

N.A. BARBARASH ◽

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D.Yu. KUVSHINOV ◽

Keyword(s):

Recent Advances ◽

Female Physiology

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“A THING LIKE DEATH”: MEDICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE BODIES IN SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS

Gender Studies ◽

10.2478/genst-2013-0006 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 93-111

Author(s):

Greta Perletti

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Modern Medicine ◽

Early Modern Medicine ◽

Dead Bodies ◽

Female Bodies ◽

Medical Concepts ◽

Female Physiology

Abstract While the hysterical ailments of women in Shakespeare’s works have often been read from psychoanalytical standpoints, early modern medicine may provide new insights into the ‘frozen’, seemingly dead bodies of some of his heroines, such as Desdemona, Thaisa, and Hermione. In the wake of recent critical work (Peterson, Slights, Pettigrew), this paper will shed fresh light on the ‘excess’ of female physiology and on Shakespeare’s creative redeployment of some medical concepts and narratives.

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