Women's Bodies

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

Edward Shorter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

414 Seiten

1990
Transaction Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-88738-848-4 (ISBN)

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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

Edward Shorter

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.1990
Verlagsort	Somerset
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-88738-848-5 / 0887388485
ISBN-13	978-0-88738-848-4 / 9780887388484
Zustand	Neuware