History of Women in the United States...
Multi-volumed work
History of Women in the United States
Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities
Ed. by Cott, Nancy F.
Ed. by Cott, Nancy F.
Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- 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
Women’s Bodies: Health and Childbirth
“On the Importance of the Obstetrick Art”: Changing Customs of Childbirth in America, 1760 to 1825
Pages 3-22
The Female Animal: Medical and Biological Views of Woman and Her Role in Nineteenth-Century America
Pages 40-64
“The Fashionable Diseases”: Women’s Complaints and Their Treatment in Nineteenth-Century America
Pages 65-92
Women as Victims of Medical Experimentation: J. Marion Sims’ Surgery on Slave Women, 1845–1850
Pages 93-100
Voluntary Motherhood: The Beginnings of Feminist Birth Control Ideas in the United States
Pages 213-230
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