Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine
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"Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine" is a historical study by Alison Bashford that examines how Victorian medical discourse shaped ideas about gender, the body, and social regulation.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine Context triple: [Alison Bashford, notableWork, Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine]
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Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality
Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality is a psychoanalytic work by Sándor Ferenczi that explores human sexuality and development through speculative biological and evolutionary perspectives.
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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex is a 1993 philosophical and gender theory book by Judith Butler that further develops her concept of gender performativity by examining how material bodies are produced and constrained through discourse and power.
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Gender and the Politics of History
Gender and the Politics of History is a landmark feminist historiographical work by Joan W. Scott that reshaped the study of history by theorizing gender as a primary category of historical analysis.
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The Politics of Women’s Biology
The Politics of Women’s Biology is a feminist science critique by biologist Ruth Hubbard that examines how biological research and medical practices have been shaped by gender bias and used to justify women’s oppression.
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Woman in the Nineteenth Century is an 1845 book by Margaret Fuller that is considered a foundational feminist text advocating for women’s intellectual, social, and political equality.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine Target entity description: "Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine" is a historical study by Alison Bashford that examines how Victorian medical discourse shaped ideas about gender, the body, and social regulation.
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A.
Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality
Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality is a psychoanalytic work by Sándor Ferenczi that explores human sexuality and development through speculative biological and evolutionary perspectives.
-
B.
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex is a 1993 philosophical and gender theory book by Judith Butler that further develops her concept of gender performativity by examining how material bodies are produced and constrained through discourse and power.
-
C.
Gender and the Politics of History
Gender and the Politics of History is a landmark feminist historiographical work by Joan W. Scott that reshaped the study of history by theorizing gender as a primary category of historical analysis.
-
D.
The Politics of Women’s Biology
The Politics of Women’s Biology is a feminist science critique by biologist Ruth Hubbard that examines how biological research and medical practices have been shaped by gender bias and used to justify women’s oppression.
-
E.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Woman in the Nineteenth Century is an 1845 book by Margaret Fuller that is considered a foundational feminist text advocating for women’s intellectual, social, and political equality.
- F. None of above. chosen
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