Medical Bondage : Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology / / Deirdre Cooper Owens.
Medical Bondage explores how, in the nineteenth century, experimental surgeries on enslaved and laboring women enabled the rise of American gynecology as a medical specialty, and shaped our understanding of race. Merging women's, medical, and social history, the book makes Black and Irish women...
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Place / Publishing House: | Athens, GA : : University of Georgia Press,, 2017. ©2017. |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (180 p.) |
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