Lisa Forman Cody
Biographic Data
| ID | 1015562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Forman Cody |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa Forman |
| FAMILY NAME | Cody |
| SIGNATURE | CODY L F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Claremont McKenna College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4263-2308 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Amy Harris. Being Single in Georgian England
Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England, by Sarah Fox
Journal Article Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England, by Sarah Fox Get access Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England, by Sarah Fox (London: University of London Press, for the Royal Historical Society, 2022; pp. xiv + 238. £25 pb. and Open Access). Lisa Forman Cody Lisa Forman Cody Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Eng…
Rebecca Whiteley, Birth Figures
Marriage is No Protection for Crime”
If coverture justified patriarchal control and legally erased many aspects of wives’ separate existence, did this mean that husbands in eighteenth-century England also enjoyed absolute authority over their wives’ sexual bodies? This article examines how contemporaries described the sexual boundaries between spouses and what wives could do when they had been violated by their husbands. Wives had few legal protections and limited social and economi…
Re-Presenting a Midwife Across Borders
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Michael BROWN. Performing Medicine
Performing Medicine illuminates English medical culture in the transitional period from the mid-Georgian to the mid-Victorian ages by focusing on the provincial city of York. The transformations that occurred in nearly every realm of English life between 1760 and 1850 were clearly revolutionary, but surprisingly, the transition from an eighteenth-century medical world to that of the mid-nineteenth century is understudied and sometimes misundersto…
The Most Secret Quintessence of Life
Reviewed by: The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands, and Hormones, 1850–1950 Lisa Forman Cody (bio) The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands, and Hormones, 1850–1950, by Chandak Sengoopta; pp. vi + 354. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006, $45.00, £28.50. Testicular extract was, according to 1930s journalist Paul de Kruif, "'the most secret quintessence of life'" (174). Chandak Sengoopta explores the rapt…
Living and Dying in Georgian London's Lying-In Hospitals
This article uses previously untapped archival sources to revise the dominant, negative view of London's eighteenth-century maternity hospitals, by reconstructing daily life at the British Lying-in Hospital. Though the hospital in fact helped to support women's work as midwives, its institutional practices altered the experience of childbirth both negatively and positively, which inspired rumors, criticism, and inflammatory published attacks. The…
Sex, Civility, and the Self
Research Article| August 01 2001 Sex, Civility, and the Self: Du Coudray, D'eon, and Eighteenth-Century Conceptions of Gendered, National, and Psychological Identity Lisa Forman Cody Lisa Forman Cody Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2001) 24 (3): 379–407. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-24-3-379 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share…
The Doctor's in Labour; or a New Whim Wham from Guildford’
Re-Presenting a Midwife Across Borders
Sex, Civility, and the Self
Research Article| August 01 2001 Sex, Civility, and the Self: Du Coudray, D'eon, and Eighteenth-Century Conceptions of Gendered, National, and Psychological Identity Lisa Forman Cody Lisa Forman Cody Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2001) 24 (3): 379–407. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-24-3-379 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share…
The Doctor's in Labour; or a New Whim Wham from Guildford’
The Doctor's in Labour; or a New Whim Wham from Guildford’
Sex, Civility, and the Self
Research Article| August 01 2001 Sex, Civility, and the Self: Du Coudray, D'eon, and Eighteenth-Century Conceptions of Gendered, National, and Psychological Identity Lisa Forman Cody Lisa Forman Cody Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2001) 24 (3): 379–407. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-24-3-379 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share…
Living and Dying in Georgian London's Lying-In Hospitals
This article uses previously untapped archival sources to revise the dominant, negative view of London's eighteenth-century maternity hospitals, by reconstructing daily life at the British Lying-in Hospital. Though the hospital in fact helped to support women's work as midwives, its institutional practices altered the experience of childbirth both negatively and positively, which inspired rumors, criticism, and inflammatory published attacks. The…
The Most Secret Quintessence of Life
Reviewed by: The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands, and Hormones, 1850–1950 Lisa Forman Cody (bio) The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands, and Hormones, 1850–1950, by Chandak Sengoopta; pp. vi + 354. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006, $45.00, £28.50. Testicular extract was, according to 1930s journalist Paul de Kruif, "'the most secret quintessence of life'" (174). Chandak Sengoopta explores the rapt…
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Michael BROWN. Performing Medicine
Performing Medicine illuminates English medical culture in the transitional period from the mid-Georgian to the mid-Victorian ages by focusing on the provincial city of York. The transformations that occurred in nearly every realm of English life between 1760 and 1850 were clearly revolutionary, but surprisingly, the transition from an eighteenth-century medical world to that of the mid-nineteenth century is understudied and sometimes misundersto…
Re-Presenting a Midwife Across Borders
Marriage is No Protection for Crime”
If coverture justified patriarchal control and legally erased many aspects of wives’ separate existence, did this mean that husbands in eighteenth-century England also enjoyed absolute authority over their wives’ sexual bodies? This article examines how contemporaries described the sexual boundaries between spouses and what wives could do when they had been violated by their husbands. Wives had few legal protections and limited social and economi…
Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England, by Sarah Fox
Journal Article Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England, by Sarah Fox Get access Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England, by Sarah Fox (London: University of London Press, for the Royal Historical Society, 2022; pp. xiv + 238. £25 pb. and Open Access). Lisa Forman Cody Lisa Forman Cody Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Eng…
Rebecca Whiteley, Birth Figures
Amy Harris. Being Single in Georgian England
Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 works) · Georgian (3 works) · History of Science and Medicine (3 works)