Women's Bodies: A Social History of Women's Encounter with Health, Ill-Health and Medicine by Edward Shorter

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

Edward Shorter

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nonfiction art gender health history medium-paced
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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 gynecolo...

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