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History of Women in the United States : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. Volume 11, Women's Bodies ; Health and Childbirth / ed. by Nancy F. Cott.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: History of Women in the United States ; Volume 11Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : K. G. Saur, [2012]Copyright date: ©1993Edition: Reprint 2012Description: 1 online resource (392 p.) : Zahlr. AbbContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783598414657
  • 9783110976328
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 300
LOC classification:
  • HQ1410
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
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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

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