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