Women's Bodies

Health and Childbirth

Nancy F. Cott

• Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9783598414657
• eBook ISBN: 9783110976328
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

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Table of contents

• 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
• Women, Menstruation, and Nineteenth-Century Medicine
• The Female Animal: Medical and Biological Views of Woman and Her Role in Nineteenth-Century America
• “The Fashionable Diseases”: Women’s Complaints and Their Treatment in Nineteenth-Century America
• Women as Victims of Medical Experimentation: J. Marion Sims’ Surgery on Slave Women, 1845–1850
• The Hysterical Woman: Sex Roles and Role Conflict in 19thcentury America
• Smothered Slave Infants: Were Slave Mothers at Fault?
• Making Women Modern: Middle Class Women and Health Reform in 19th Century America
• From Maidenhood to Menopause: Sex Education for Women in Victorian America
• Birthing and Anesthesia: The Debate over Twilight Sleep
• Voluntary Motherhood: The Beginnings of Feminist Birth Control Ideas in the United States
• Chlorotic Girls, 1870–1920: A Historical Perspective on Female Adolescence
• Under the Shadow of Maternity: American Women's Responses to Death and Debility Fears in Nineteenth-Century Childbirth
• The American Midwife Controversy: A Crisis of Professionalization
• Forgotten Women: American Midwives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
• The Immigrant Midwives of Lawrence: The Conflict between Law and Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Massachusetts
• “Science” Enters the Birthing Room: Obstetrics in America since the Eighteenth Century
• Feminine Hygiene, Fashion, and the Emancipation of American Women
• Using Oral History to Chart the Course of Illegal Abortions in Montana
• Copyright Information
• Index