Proving pregnancy : gender, law, and medical knowledge in nineteenth-century America
Title:
Proving pregnancy : gender, law, and medical knowledge in nineteenth-century America
Author:
Turner, Felicity M., author.
ISBN:
9781469669694
9781469669700
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xvi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series:
Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture.
Contents:
An anatomy of knowledge -- Calling the midwife -- The physician and the corpse -- Slavery, civilization, and the body politic -- Freedom and the reconstruction of bodies -- From midwives to physicians -- From bodies to minds -- The emergence of rights.
Abstract:
"Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how women - Black and white, enslaved and free - gradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals"-- Provided by publisher.
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