Women's medicine : sex, family planning and British female doctors in transnational perspective, 1920-70 / / Caroline Rusterholz

• Autore: Rusterholz Caroline
• Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2020; ©2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) : illustrations
• Soggetto topico: Family planning - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Women in medicine - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Women's health services - Great Britain - History - 20th century
• Soggetto non controllato: Gender equality; birth control; contraception; contraceptive technologies; gender; infertility; medicalisation; professionalisation; sexual counselling; transnational; women doctors
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Sommario/riassunto: Women'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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women's medicine
• ISBN: 9781526149114; 1526149117; 9781526156556; 1526156555
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996552361803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Social histories of medicine.