{"product_id":"pathologies-of-love-judy-kem-9781496215208","title":"Pathologies of Love: Medicine and the Woman Question in Early Modern France","description":"\u003ci\u003ePathologies of Love\u003c\/i\u003e examines the role of medicine in the debate on women, known as the \u003ci\u003equerelle des femmes\u003c\/i\u003e, in early modern France. Questions concerning women's physical makeup and its psychological and moral consequences played an integral role in the querelle. This debate on the status of women and their role in society began in the fifteenth century and continued through the sixteenth and, as many critics would say, well beyond. In querelle works early modern medicine, women's sexual difference, literary reception, and gendered language often merge. Literary authors perpetuated medical ideas such as the notion of allegedly fatal lovesickness, and physicians published works that included disquisitions on the moral nature of women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003ePathologies of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, Judy Kem looks at the writings of Christine de Pizan, Jean Molinet, Symphorien Champier, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and Marguerite de Navarre, examining the role of received medical ideas in the querelle des femmes. She reconstructs how these authors interpreted the traditional courtly understanding of women's pity or mercy on a dying lover, their understanding of contemporary debates about women's supposed sexual insatiability and its biological effects on men's lives and fertility, and how erotomania or erotic melancholy was understood as a fatal illness. While the two women who frame this study defended women and based much of what they wrote on personal experience, the three men appealed to male authority and tradition in their writings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Judy Kem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496215206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496215208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2020","brand":"Judy Kem","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43936368132351,"sku":"9781496215208","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e2d1acd6-9469-49d1-972d-04c8a2a105ec.jpg?v=1681425156","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pathologies-of-love-judy-kem-9781496215208","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}