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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Athens :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2017]
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Sisällysluettelo:
- Introduction. American gynecology and black lives
- The birth of American gynecology
- Black women's experiences in slavery and medicine
- Contested relations: slavery, sex, and medicine
- Irish immigrant women and American gynecology
- Historical black superbodies and the medical gaze
- Afterword.