03522nam 2200649 450 99655236180331620211119231431.09781526149114electronic book1526149117electronic book9781526156556electronic book1526156555electronic book10.7765/9781526149114(CKB)5490000000019514(DE-B1597)660301(DE-B1597)9781526149114(EXLCZ)99549000000001951420210126d2021 uy 0engur|n|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWomen's medicine sex, family planning and British female doctors in transnational perspective, 1920-70 /Caroline RusterholzManchester :Manchester University Press,2020.©2020.1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) illustrationsSocial histories of medicinePrint version: Women's medicine. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020 9781526149121 (OCoLC)1202850316 1-5261-4912-5 Includes bibliographical references and indexWomen's medicine highlights British female doctors' key contribution to the production and circulation of scientific knowledge around contraception, family planning and sexual disorders between 1920-70. It argues that women doctors were pivotal in developing a holistic approach to family planning and transmitting this knowledge across borders, playing a more prominent role in shaping scientific and medical knowledge than previously acknowledged. The book locates women doctors' involvement within the changing landscape of national and international reproductive politics. Illuminating women doctors' agency in the male-dominated field of medicine, this book reveals their practical engagement with birth control and later family planning clinics in Britain, their participation in the development of the international movement of birth control and family planning and their influence on French doctors. Drawing on a wide range of archived and published medical materials, Rusterholz sheds light on the strategies British female doctors used and the alliances they made to put forward their medical agenda and position themselves as experts and leaders in birth control and family planning research and practice.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender equality.Social histories of medicine.Family planningGreat BritainHistory20th centuryWomen in medicineGreat BritainHistory20th centuryWomen's health servicesGreat BritainHistory20th centuryGender equality.birth control.contraception.contraceptive technologies.gender.infertility.medicalisation.professionalisation.sexual counselling.transnational.women doctors.Family planningHistoryWomen in medicineHistoryWomen's health servicesHistoryRusterholz Caroline1347878N$TN$TOCLCOBOOK996552361803316Women's medicine3084721UNISA