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.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: AXELSEN, DIANA E.,; BRUMBERG, JOAN JACOBS,; BULLOUGH, VERN,; DECLERCQ, EUGENE,; GORDON, LINDA,; HALLER, JOHN S.,; JOHNSON, MICHAEL P.,; KOBRIN, FRANCES E.,; LACROIX, RICHARD,; LEAVITT, JUDITH WALZER,; LITOFF, JUDY BARRETT,; MORANTZ, REGINA MARKELL,; ROSENBERG, CHARLES,; SANDS, DIANE,; SCHOLTEN, CATHERINE M.,; SCHROEDER, FRED Ε. H.,; SMITH-ROSENBERG, CARROLL,; VOGHT, MARTHA,; WOOD, ANN DOUGLAS,
• HerausgeberIn: Cott, Nancy F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : K. G. Saur, , [2012]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: History of Women in the United States ; Volume 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb.

Table of 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