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 image
ISBN-10:

0887388485

ISBN-13:

9780887388484

Author(s): SHORTER, Edward
Released: Dec 31, 1990
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback, 414 pages
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Description:

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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