TY - BOOK AU - AXELSEN,DIANA E. AU - BRUMBERG,JOAN JACOBS AU - BULLOUGH,VERN AU - Cott,Nancy F. AU - DECLERCQ,EUGENE AU - GORDON,LINDA AU - HALLER,JOHN S. AU - JOHNSON,MICHAEL P. AU - KOBRIN,FRANCES E. AU - LACROIX,RICHARD AU - LEAVITT,JUDITH WALZER AU - LITOFF,JUDY BARRETT AU - MORANTZ,REGINA MARKELL AU - ROSENBERG,CHARLES AU - SANDS,DIANE AU - SCHOLTEN,CATHERINE M. AU - SCHROEDER,FRED Ε.H. AU - SMITH-ROSENBERG,CARROLL AU - VOGHT,MARTHA AU - WOOD,ANN DOUGLAS TI - History of Women in the United States: Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. T2 - History of Women in the United States SN - 9783598414657 AV - HQ1410 U1 - 300 PY - 2012///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - K. G. Saur, KW - Childbirth KW - United States KW - History KW - Gynecology KW - Women KW - Health and hygiene KW - Frau KW - Geschichte KW - USA KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General KW - bisacsh N1 - i-iv --; Contents --; Series Preface --; Introduction --; Women’s Bodies: Health and Childbirth --; “On the Importance of the Obstetrick Art”: Changing Customs of Childbirth in America, 1760 to 1825 --; Women, Menstruation, and Nineteenth-Century Medicine --; The Female Animal: Medical and Biological Views of Woman and Her Role in Nineteenth-Century America --; “The Fashionable Diseases”: Women’s Complaints and Their Treatment in Nineteenth-Century America --; Women as Victims of Medical Experimentation: J. Marion Sims’ Surgery on Slave Women, 1845–1850 --; The Hysterical Woman: Sex Roles and Role Conflict in 19thcentury America --; Smothered Slave Infants: Were Slave Mothers at Fault? --; Making Women Modern: Middle Class Women and Health Reform in 19th Century America --; From Maidenhood to Menopause: Sex Education for Women in Victorian America --; Birthing and Anesthesia: The Debate over Twilight Sleep --; Voluntary Motherhood: The Beginnings of Feminist Birth Control Ideas in the United States --; Chlorotic Girls, 1870–1920: A Historical Perspective on Female Adolescence --; Under the Shadow of Maternity: American Women's Responses to Death and Debility Fears in Nineteenth-Century Childbirth --; The American Midwife Controversy: A Crisis of Professionalization --; Forgotten Women: American Midwives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century --; The Immigrant Midwives of Lawrence: The Conflict between Law and Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Massachusetts --; “Science” Enters the Birthing Room: Obstetrics in America since the Eighteenth Century --; Feminine Hygiene, Fashion, and the Emancipation of American Women --; Using Oral History to Chart the Course of Illegal Abortions in Montana --; Copyright Information --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110976328 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110976328 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110976328/original ER -