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Body failure : medical views of women, 1900-1950 / Wendy Mitchinson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (456 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442665279
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RA564 .B639 2013
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Contents:
Notes -- Index -- Illustrations
Subject: In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Woman�s Place""; ""2 Growing Up and Facing Puberty""; ""3 “You can�t be at your best when you�re sitting in a swamp�: Menstruation""; ""4 Understanding Sexuality""; ""5 Advice on Marriage and Motherhood""; ""6 “On the fringe of knowledge�: Infertility""; ""7 Controlling Fertility: Birth Control and Abortion""; ""8 “The ... mischievous tendency of specialism�: Gynaecology""; ""9 The Womanly Body: A Cancer Threat""; ""10 The Mind�s Health""; ""11 Menopause: The End of Womanhood""

ConclusionNotes on Sources and Methodology -- Notes -- Index -- Illustrations

In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century.

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