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

Edward Shorter

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Author
Edward Shorter
Publisher
Routledge
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Category
History & Criticism
Condition
New
ISBN-13
9780887388484
ISBN-10
0887388485

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ISBN: 0887388485

Author: Shorter, Edward

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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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