From hysteria to hormones : a rhetorical history / Amy Koerber.

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]

xxi, 239 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-233) and index.

Hormones and hysteria : a rhetorical topology -- Hysteria from ancient texts until the nineteenth century : the womb as topological space -- Charcot's circus : nineteenth-century science of hysteria as a moment of stasis -- Stasis unsettled : the early twentieth-century rise of endocrinology -- Topology of sex difference : a long history of men saying outrageous things about women's reproductive organs -- Illuminating women : metaphor and movement after centuries of "groping in the dark" -- This is your [female] brain on hormones : enthymeme in contemporary discourse -- From hysteria to hormones.