Wendy Mitchinson

Body Failure

Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 687g
• ISBN-13: 9781442614314
• ISBN-10: 1442614315
• Artikelnr.: 38126192

Autorenporträt

Wendy Mitchinson is a Canadian historian and a Distinguished Professor Emerita in University of Waterloo.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One
Woman’s Place
Chapter Two
Growing Up and Facing Puberty
Chapter Three
“You can’t be at your best when you’re sitting in a swamp”: Menstruation
Chapter Four
Understanding Sexuality
Chapter Five
Advice on Marriage and Motherhood
Chapter Six
“On the fringe of knowledge”: Infertility
Chapter Seven
Controlling Fertility: Birth Control and Abortion
Chapter Eight
“The ... mischievous tendency of specialism”: Gynaecology
Chapter Nine
The Womanly Body: A Cancer Threat
Chapter Ten
The Mind’s Health
Chapter Eleven
Menopause: The End of Womanhood
Conclusion
Notes on Sources and Methodology