History of women in the United States . 11 Women's bodies : health and childbirth : historical articles on women's lives and activities. / / edited with an introduction by Nancy F. Cott

• Pubblicazione: Munich, [Germany] : , : K. G. Saur, , 1993; ©1993
• Edizione: Reprint 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (406 pages)
• Disciplina: 613.042440973
• Soggetto topico: Women - Health and hygiene - United States; Childbirth - United States - History; Gynecology - United States - History; Women - United States - History
• Persona (resp. second.): CottNancy F.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- 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 / SCHOLTEN, CATHERINE M. -- Women, Menstruation, and Nineteenth-Century Medicine / BULLOUGH, VERN / VOGHT, MARTHA -- The Female Animal: Medical and Biological Views of Woman and Her Role in Nineteenth-Century America / SMITH-ROSENBERG, CARROLL / ROSENBERG, CHARLES -- "The Fashionable Diseases": Women's Complaints and Their Treatment in Nineteenth-Century America / WOOD, ANN DOUGLAS -- Women as Victims of Medical Experimentation: J. Marion Sims' Surgery on Slave Women, 1845-1850 / AXELSEN, DIANA E. -- The Hysterical Woman: Sex Roles and Role Conflict in 19thcentury America / SMITH-ROSENBERG, CARROLL -- Smothered Slave Infants: Were Slave Mothers at Fault? / JOHNSON, MICHAEL P. -- Making Women Modern: Middle Class Women and Health Reform in 19th Century America / MORANTZ, REGINA MARKELL -- From Maidenhood to Menopause: Sex Education for Women in Victorian America / HALLER, JOHN S. -- Birthing and Anesthesia: The Debate over Twilight Sleep / LEAVITT, JUDITH WALZER -- Voluntary Motherhood: The Beginnings of Feminist Birth Control Ideas in the United States / GORDON, LINDA -- Chlorotic Girls, 1870-1920: A Historical Perspective on Female Adolescence / BRUMBERG, JOAN JACOBS -- Under the Shadow of Maternity: American Women's Responses to Death and Debility Fears in Nineteenth-Century Childbirth / LEAVITT, JUDITH WALZER -- The American Midwife Controversy: A Crisis of Professionalization / KOBRIN, FRANCES E. -- Forgotten Women: American Midwives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / LITOFF, JUDY BARRETT -- The Immigrant Midwives of Lawrence: The Conflict between Law and Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Massachusetts / DECLERCQ, EUGENE / LACROIX, RICHARD -- "Science" Enters the Birthing Room: Obstetrics in America since the Eighteenth Century / LEAVITT, JUDITH WALZER -- Feminine Hygiene, Fashion, and the Emancipation of American Women / SCHROEDER, FRED Ε. H. -- Using Oral History to Chart the Course of Illegal Abortions in Montana / SANDS, DIANE -- Copyright Information -- Index
• Titolo autorizzato: History of women in the United States
• ISBN: 3-11-097632-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788970703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II