IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Jan 1995

Gendered ideologies: cultural and social contexts for illustrated medical manuals in Renaissance England

L.E. Brasseur ; T.L. Thompson

Abstract

Considers the social and political ideologies that affected the design of illustrations of the female body in English Renaissance medical manuals. Through a semiotic analysis, we examine medical illustrations explicitly tied to female bodies-anatomical illustrations of female genitalia, a clitorectomy and a hymenectomy-to show that the ways in which a body or surgical procedure was visually represented served to create the "other". We learn, by extension, how social and political ideologies affect the decision-making of modern-day technical communicators.

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IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
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1995-01-01
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10.1109/47.475592
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technical communication multimodality affect and writing
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