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.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : K. G. Saur, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Reprint 2012
Language:English
Series:History of Women in the United States ; Volume 11
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb.
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Other title: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 --
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Index
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110976328
9783110635669
DOI:10.1515/9783110976328
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Nancy F. Cott.