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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Main Author: Owens, Deirdre Cooper (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Athens University of Georgia Press 2017
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