Medical Bondage Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

Medical Bondage explores how, in the nineteenth century, experimental surgeries on enslaved and laboring women enabled the rise of American gynecology as a medical specialty, and shaped our understanding of race. Merging women's, medical, and social history, the book makes Black and Irish women...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, 1972- (-)
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens University of Georgia Press 2017
Athens, GA : 2017.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422289106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. American gynecology and black lives
  • The birth of American gynecology
  • Black women's experiences in slavery and medicine
  • Contested relations: slavery, sex, and medicine
  • Irish immigrant women and American gynecology
  • Historical black superbodies and the medical gaze
  • Afterword.