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This programme looks at the complex associations made in the 18th century between the concepts of women and nature, and how these were depicted in art and in science.
This programme looks at the complex associations made in the 18th century between the concepts of women and nature, and how these were depicted in art and in science.
| Module code and title: | A206, The Enlightenment |
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| Item code: | A206; 16 |
| First transmission date: | 1993 |
| Published: | 1993 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:20 |
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| Producer: | Alison Tucker |
| Contributor: | L. J. Jordanova |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Charity; Midwifery; Women |
| Subject terms: | Women in art; Women in science; Women--Social conditions |
| Footage description: | Footage - B/w illustration:"Boys peeping at Nature" by Hogarth. Detail and panning views. Ludmilla Jordanova speaking. B/w illustration:"Nature" by Gravelot. Ludmilla Jordanova speaking. B/w print:"Nature display'd" rotating. Close ups of 4 figures. B/w illustration:"Stork flying over statue". Detail. B/w print:"Female botanists". Detail (0'30"-4'58") - B/w print:"Feeling". Colour painting:"Nature adorned by the Graces" by Rubens and Breughel. Detail. B/w illustration:"Hygieia". Detail (4'59"-6'45") - B/w illustrations:"Pulchriores Charitum", "La Savoyarde" and "Mob-capped mother and baby". "Pulchriores Charitum". Detail. "La Savoyarde" and "Mob-capped mother and baby". B/w illustrations:"La Charite", and "Charite" by Gravelot (6'46"-8'37") - B/w illustration:"Verite" by Gravelot. B/w "Frontispiece Encyclopedie". B/w illustration:"L'expereience sur l'Electricite". Detail. B/w illustrations:"Natural Philosophy" and "Astronomy" (8'38"-10'26"). Ludmilla Jordanova speaking with Hunter's Atlas. Various plates from Hunter's and Jenty's Atlases of pregnant women's torsos and unborn foetuses. Text from Hunter's Atlas. "Boys peeping at Nature" by Hogarth. Wax model of woman with detachable parts. Model shown from various angles. B/w drawing of foetuses. B/w illustration:"Baby's head in forceps" (10'27"-17'13") - B/w illustration of George Crabbe. Title page from "The works of the Rev. George Crabbe". Voice reading text (17'14"-19'57") - B/w illustration:"Female delicacy". Detail then panning across. Detail. Ludmilla Jordanova speaking with 2 colour prints:"Midwife" by Rowlandson and "A Man-Mid-Wife". Ludmilla Jordanova speaking. Title page:"An Essay towards a complete new system of Midwifery". B/w illustrations of instruments used in childbirth (19'58"-22'13") - B/w illustration:"Truth pointing to the Light of Philosophy". Colour portrait of Mary Shelley. B/w print of figure with bones. B/w print of back view of Frankenstein's monster. B/w print of front view of Frankenstein's monster. B/w photo of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster (22'14"-24'20"). |
| Master spool number: | HOU7509 |
| Production number: | FOUA417N |
| Videofinder number: | 4535 |
| Available to public: | no |
