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Fixing Women

The Birth of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Britain and America

Fixing Women( )
Author: Nichols, Marcia
ISBN:978-1-7355423-0-0
Publication Date:Dec 2020
Publisher:University of California Health Humanities Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $29.95
Book Description:

Using the tools of book history, media studies, and literary theory, Fixing Women examines the construction of a masculinist professional selfhood in male-authored midwifery textbooks during the long eighteenth-century. Ordinary birth events were cast as archetypal struggles between life and death that required the intervention of the "Hero-Accoucheur," who fought valiantly to rescue the pregnant damsel-in-distress endangered by her own body. By casting themselves as literary heroes,...
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