03715oam 22007094a 450 991088299840332120240902205238.01-7355423-0-X(CKB)34399712000041(OCoLC)1453283515(MdBmJHUP)musev2_124660(EXLCZ)993439971200004120210501h20212021 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFixing Women : The Birth of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Britain and America / Marcia D. NicholsSan Francisco, CA :University of California, Medical Humanities Consortium,[2021]©[2021]1 online resource (229 pages): illustrations ;Perspectives in medical humanitiesIncludes bibliographical references and index.1.Man-Midwife as picaresque hero: William Smellie's Treatise on the Theory and Art of Midwifery --2.Anatomizing "an Hairy Monster": William Smellie's A Set of Anatomical Tables --3.Domesticating the man-midwife: Thomas Denman and the accoucheur of feeling --4.The American hero-accoucheur and medical education: Samuel Bard's A Compendium of Midwifery."Using the tools of book history, media studies, and literary theory, Fixing Women examines the construction of a masculinist professional selfhood in male-authored midwifery textbooks during the long eighteenth-century. Ordinary birth events were cast as archetypal struggles between life and death that required the intervention of the "Hero-Accoucheur," who fought valiently to rescue the pregnant damsel-in-distress endangered by her own body. By casting themselves as literary heroes, medical men could present themselves as altruistic, disinterested professionals. Yet under the mask of altruism and scientific curiosity lurked a self-interested, hegemonic masculinity that justified the emerging medical specialties of obstetrics and gynecology--specialties that required the homogenization of white, bourgeois women as "the Sex." By charting the develpment of and struggles of obstetrical discourse, Fixing Women sheds light on the gender politics of a biomedical model and practice that continues to reverberate in our own time."--Page 4 of cover.Perspectives in medical humanities.ObstetricsfastMidwiferyfastGynecologyfastGynecologieHistoireObstetriqueHistoireSages-femmesÉtats-UnisHistoire18e siecleSages-femmesGrande-BretagneHistoire18e siecleMidwivesUnited StatesHistory18th centuryGynecologyHistoryObstetricsHistoryMidwiferyUnited StatesHistory18th centuryMidwiferyGreat BritainHistory18th centuryUnited StatesfastGreat BritainfastHistoryElectronic books. ObstetricsMidwiferyGynecologyGynecologieHistoire.ObstetriqueHistoire.Sages-femmesHistoireSages-femmesHistoireMidwivesHistoryGynecologyHistory.ObstetricsHistory.MidwiferyHistoryMidwiferyHistoryNichols Marcia D.1978-1771496MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910882998403321Fixing Women4261767UNINA