Body Failure : : Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950 / / Wendy Mitchinson.
In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century. It is based on in-depth research in a variety of archival sources, including Canadian medical journals, textbooks used in many of Canada's me...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (456 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Woman's Place
- 2. Growing Up and Facing Puberty
- 3. "You can't be at your best when you're sitting in a swamp": Menstruation
- 4. Understanding Sexuality
- 5. Advice on Marriage and Motherhood
- 6. "On the fringe of knowledge": Infertility
- 7. Controlling Fertility: Birth Control and Abortion
- 8. "The ... mischievous tendency of specialism": Gynaecology
- 9. The Womanly Body: A Cancer Threat
- 10. The Mind's Health
- 11. Menopause: The End of Womanhood
- Conclusion
- Notes on Sources and Methodology
- Notes
- Index