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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Author / Contributor: Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, 1972- (Author)
Imprint: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
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