Women's Bodies: A Social History of Women's Encounter with Health, Ill-Health and Medicine
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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0887388485
ISBN13:9780887388484
Release Date:December 1990
Publisher:Routledge
Length:414 Pages
Weight:3.00 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
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Essential - even for the squeamish
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
If you don't wince over and over again reading this book, then you're not human. This is a horrifying but very worthy book about changing (and unchanging) attitudes to women's bodies throughout the ages, mostly focusing on pregnancy, childbirth, and menstruation. Hardcore feminists might not like the way Shorter glosses over the problems of the present day, but the historical work is so excellent and insightful - and so fastidiously researched and footnoted - that I'm prepared to overlook this. This book will make you uncomfortable in more ways than one, but it's a book no-one should miss.
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