History of women in the United States. 11, Women's bodies : health and childbirth : historical articles on women's lives and activities. / edited with an introduction by Nancy F. Cott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cott, Nancy F., editor, writer of foreword.

Series:

History of Women in the United States ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Health and hygiene--United States.

Women.

Childbirth--United States--History.

Childbirth.

Gynecology--United States--History.

Gynecology.

Women--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2012

Place of Publication:

Munich, [Germany] : K. G. Saur, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Women's Bodies".

Contents:

Frontmatter

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 / SCHOLTEN, CATHERINE M.

Women, Menstruation, and Nineteenth-Century Medicine / BULLOUGH, VERN / VOGHT, MARTHA

The Female Animal: Medical and Biological Views of Woman and Her Role in Nineteenth-Century America / SMITH-ROSENBERG, CARROLL / ROSENBERG, CHARLES

"The Fashionable Diseases": Women's Complaints and Their Treatment in Nineteenth-Century America / WOOD, ANN DOUGLAS

Women as Victims of Medical Experimentation: J. Marion Sims' Surgery on Slave Women, 1845-1850 / AXELSEN, DIANA E.

The Hysterical Woman: Sex Roles and Role Conflict in 19thcentury America / SMITH-ROSENBERG, CARROLL

Smothered Slave Infants: Were Slave Mothers at Fault? / JOHNSON, MICHAEL P.

Making Women Modern: Middle Class Women and Health Reform in 19th Century America / MORANTZ, REGINA MARKELL

From Maidenhood to Menopause: Sex Education for Women in Victorian America / HALLER, JOHN S.

Birthing and Anesthesia: The Debate over Twilight Sleep / LEAVITT, JUDITH WALZER

Voluntary Motherhood: The Beginnings of Feminist Birth Control Ideas in the United States / GORDON, LINDA

Chlorotic Girls, 1870-1920: A Historical Perspective on Female Adolescence / BRUMBERG, JOAN JACOBS

Under the Shadow of Maternity: American Women's Responses to Death and Debility Fears in Nineteenth-Century Childbirth / LEAVITT, JUDITH WALZER

The American Midwife Controversy: A Crisis of Professionalization / KOBRIN, FRANCES E.

Forgotten Women: American Midwives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / LITOFF, JUDY BARRETT

The Immigrant Midwives of Lawrence: The Conflict between Law and Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Massachusetts / DECLERCQ, EUGENE / LACROIX, RICHARD

"Science" Enters the Birthing Room: Obstetrics in America since the Eighteenth Century / LEAVITT, JUDITH WALZER

Feminine Hygiene, Fashion, and the Emancipation of American Women / SCHROEDER, FRED Ε. H.

Using Oral History to Chart the Course of Illegal Abortions in Montana / SANDS, DIANE

Copyright Information

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 23, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110976328

3110976323

OCLC:

979596831