| Series |
Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture. ^A228874
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| Contents |
An anatomy of knowledge -- Calling the midwife -- The physician and the corpse -- Slavery, civilization, and the body politic -- Freedom and the reconstruction of bodies -- From midwives to physicians -- From bodies to minds -- The emergence of rights. |
| Abstract |
"Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how women - Black and white, enslaved and free - gradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-218) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Turner, Felicity M. Proving pregnancy. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022] 9781469669724 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022015148 |
| ISBN | 9781469669694 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1469669692 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781469669700 paperback |
| ISBN | 1469669706 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
