Abstract

FAJULA COLOM, Sara. Illustrations of the female body in the Tratado de ginecologia by Miquel A. Fargas Roca (1910). Dynamis [online]. 2013, vol.33, n.1, pp.139-168. ISSN 2340-7948.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S0211-95362013000100007.

This study analyzes the epistemological role of visual representations in the Tratado de ginecología by Miquel A. Fargas Roca (1858-1916). The illustrations are interpreted not only as a didactic or ornamental complement of the text but also as an element of the process of scientific knowledge construction. After placing the author and his work in their social and scientific context, the paper provides a combined analysis of the text and illustrations of the manual, seeking the image of the woman and the meaning of her body for bourgeois society in the late 19th and early 20th century. It is concluded that the visual representations reveal the ideological position of the author and the social role that he assigned to the women of his time.

Keywords : gender history; textbook of gynaecology; medical illustrations; female body; medical specialties.

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