Proving pregnancy gender, law, and medical knowledge in nineteenth-century America / Felicity M. Turner.

SeriesGender and American culture
Gender & American culture. ^A228874
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 163-218) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2022015148
ISBN9781469669694 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN9781469669700 (paperback ; alk. paper)
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