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Women's Bodies

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

Edward Shorter author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc

Published:31st Dec '90

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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

ISBN: 9780887388484

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 680g

414 pages