Public Privates: Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum

by Terri Kapsalis

In Public Privates, a book about looking and being looked at, about speculums, spectacles, and spectators, about display, illumination, and reflection, Terri Kapsalis makes visible the practices and representations of gynecology. The quintessential examination of women, gynecology is not simply the study of women's bodies, but also serves to define and constitute them. Any critical analysis of gynecology is therefore, as Kapsalis affirms, an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822319217
• ISBN13: 9780822319214
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.2"