| Contents |
Part I. Women and health in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Part II. Women and health in the Nineteenth Century -- Part III. Women and health in the late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: issues -- Body image and physical fitness -- Sexuality -- Fertility, abortion, and birth control -- Childbirth and motherhood -- Women and mental illness -- Health care providers: midwives -- Health care providers: nurses -- Health care providers: physicians -- Women, health reform, and public health -- Twentieth-Century medicalization and women. |
| Summary |
Organised chronologically and then by topic, this volume covers studies of women and health in the colonial and revolutionary periods through the Civil War. The remainder of the book focuses on the late 19th and 20th centuries. |
| Bibliography note | "A Guide for Further Reading": p. 683-692. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Women and health in America. 2nd ed. Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Women and health in America. 2nd ed. Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999 |
| LCCN | 98014446 |
| ISBN | 0299159604 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780299159603 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0299159647 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780299159641 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
