Women's Bodies: A Social History of Women's Encounter with Health, Ill-Health and Medicine

Women's Bodies: A Social History of Women's Encounter with Health, Ill-Health and Medicine

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What has been the source of women's oppression by men? Shorter argues that women were victimized by their own bodies. Exploring five centuries of medical records and folklore from Europe and the US, he shows how pregnancy, childbirth, and gynecological disease have kept women in positions of social

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Book information

ISBN: 9780887388484
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 362.198009
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 398
Weight: 640g
Height: 231mm
Width: 154mm
Spine width: 31mm