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

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1990
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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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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

$60.96

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 424
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 31 Dec 1990
ISBN 10: 0887388485
ISBN 13: 9780887388484