Proving pregnancy gender, law, and medical knowledge in nineteenth-century America / Felicity M. Turner.
| Author/creator | Turner, Felicity M. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022] |
| Description | xvi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection (Backlist) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford UNC Press Titles |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Gender 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-218) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022015148 |
| ISBN | 9781469669694 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781469669700 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |