Helen King: 12 books
Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology
The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on [the diseases of] women,' a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. This collection was first published in 1566, with a second edition in 1586/8 and...
The Disease of Virgins
Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
From an acclaimed author in the field, this is a compelling study of the origins and history of the disease commonly seen as afflicting young unmarried girls.
Understanding of the condition turned puberty and virginity into medical conditions, and Helen King stresses the continuity of this...
Hippocrates' Woman
Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Hippocrates' Woman demonstrates the role of Hippocratic ideas about the female body in the subsequent history of western gynaecology. It examines these ideas not only in the social and cultural context in which they were first produced, but also the ways in which writers up to the Victorian period...
by Helen King
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in...
WHAT'S YOUR ANGLE?
UNDERSTANDING ANGULATION AND STRUCTURE FOR THE PERFORMANCE DOG
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
What’s Your Angle is made up of two parts: The first part consists of the author’s six step method that teaches the reader how to easily see canine angles. This unique method takes the reader through a step by step process to identify and mark each important point on the dog. This will help train...
Boundary Objects and Beyond
Working with Leigh Star
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The multifaceted work of the late Susan Leigh Star is explored through a selection of her writings and essays by friends and colleagues.
Susan Leigh Star (1954–2010) was one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades. In her work, Star highlighted the messy...
Virginia Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Virginia Women is the first of two volumes exploring the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. This collection of seventeen essays, written by established and emerging scholars, recovers the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the seventeenth...
African Democracy and Development
Challenges for Post-Conflict African Nations
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
This book is an examination of particular African countries that are in the post-conflict phase. They have experienced horrific civil wars that left thousands of their citizens internally displaced or as refugees in surrounding countries, and some fled to countries in the global north.
The...
Diasporas
Concepts, Intersections, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora. Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping...
by Amal El-Mohtar, Susie Moloney, Claire Humphrey
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing is a reprint anthology to be published annually by ChiZine Publications, collecting speculative short fiction and poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, etc.) that represents the best work produced by Canadian writers. Canadian...
by Helen Grinnell King
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Picking Your Performance Puppy is more than a book! It also contains links to videos that demonstrate how structure determines movement and performance in dogs. This book is geared towards people who want to know more about what it takes to make a great performance dog. If you are getting ready to purchase...
Disasters and Social Resilience
A bioecological approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
The interconnectedness of communities, organisations, governing bodies, policy and individuals in the field of disaster studies has never been accurately examined or comprehensively modelled. This kind of study is vital for planning policy and emergency responses and assessing individual and community...