Edward Shorter

Women's Bodies

A Social History of Women's Encounter with Health, Ill-Health and Medicine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9780887388484
• ISBN-10: 0887388485
• Artikelnr.: 21574129

Autorenporträt

Edward Shorter

Inhaltsangabe

Women, Men, and Bodies 1. Men, Women, and Sex 2. The Architecture of the
Body A History of the Birth Experience 3. Traditional Births: Women Take
Charge 4. A Typical Birth Then 5. Pain and Death in Childbirth 6. Infection
after Delivery 7. The Rise of the Birth Experience 8. Abortion Other
Physical Differences Between Men and Women 9. Did Women Live Longer Than
Men? If Not, Why Not? 10. Diseases of Sexual Significance 11. Changing
Alliances and the End of Victimization