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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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, 1972- (Údar)
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Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
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Clár na nÁbhar:
  • 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.