Woman Beneath Skin

In this provocative study, Barbara Duden asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms that we use to describe our own bodies--male and female, healthy or sick--are indeed cultural constructions. To illustrate this, Duden delves into the records of an eighteenth-century German physician who meticulously documented the medical histories of eighteen hundred women of all ages and backgrounds, often in their own words.Duden, Barbara is the author of 'Woman Beneath Skin' with ISBN 9780674954038 and ISBN 0674954033.