Research Catalog

Title

Women and health in America : historical readings / edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt.

Publication

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Leavitt, Judith Walzer
• Leavitt, Judith Walzer.

Description

ix, 692 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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.

Subject

• Sexual Behavior
• Physicians, Women
• History, Modern 1601-
• Family Planning Services
• Women's Health
• Health Occupations > history
• Gynecology > history
• Family Planning Services > history
• Women > history
• Women in medicine > United States > History
• Women > Diseases > History. > United States
• Women > Health and hygiene > History. > United States
• Women > United States > Sexual behavior > History
• Women > Sexual behavior > History. > United States
• History, Early Modern 1451-1600
• United States

Genre/Form

• Collected Work
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 683-692).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Interactions between public health nurses and clients on American Indian Reservations during the 1930s / Emily K. Abel and Nancy Reifel -- Feminist showplace / Mary Roth Walsh -- The gendering of empathic expertise: how women physicians became more empathic than men / Regina Morantz-Sanchez -- Uncle Sam's loyal nieces: American medical women, citizenship, and war service in World War I / Kimberly Jensen -- A "terrible and exhausting" struggle: family caregiving during the transformation of medicine / Emily K. Abel -- Ministries of healing: Mary Baker Eddy, Ellen G. White, and the religion of health / Ronald L. Numbers and Rennie B. Schoepflin -- Spreading the germ theory: sanitary science and home economics, 1880 - 1930 / Nancy Tomes -- Gendered expectations: women and early twentieth-century public health / Judith Walzer Leavitt -- The growth of medical authority: technology and morals in turn-of-the-century obstetrics / Judith Walzer Leavitt -- "A complete disaster": abortion and the politics of hospital abortion committees, 1950 - 1970 / Rickie Solinger.
• Taking the trade: abortion and gender relations in an eighteenth-century New England village / Cornelia Hughes Dayton -- Childbirth practices among Native American women of New England and Canada, 1600-1800 / Anne Marie Plane -- "The living mother of a living child": midwifery and mortality in postrevolutionary New England / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- "This trial was sent in love and mercy for my refinement": a Quaker woman's experience of breast cancer surgery in 1814 / Susan Garfinkel -- Mother love and infant death, 1750-1920 / Nancy Schrom Dye and Daniel Blake Smith -- The female animal: medical and biological views of woman and her role in nineteenth-century America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg and Charles E. Rosenberg -- The invisible (invalid) woman: African-american women, illness, and ninteenth-century narrative / Diane Price Herndl -- "Something happens to girls": menarche and the emergence of the modern American hygienic imperative / Joan Jacobs Brumberg -- From robust appetites to calorie counting: the emergence of dieting among Smith College students / Margaret A. Lowe -- What ought to be and what was: women's sexuality in the nineteenth century / Carl N. Degler -- Romantic friends or a "different race of creatures"? the representtion of lesbian pathology in nineteenth-century America / Marylynne Diggs -- "A new generation of women": progressive psychiatrists and the hypersexual female / Elizabeth Lunbeck.
• Voluntary motherhood: the beginnings of feminist birth control ideas in the United States / Linda Gordon -- "About to meet her maker": women, doctors, dying declarations, and the state's investigation of abortion, Chicago, 1867-1940 / Leslie J. Reagan -- The black community and the birth control movement / Jessie M. Rodrique -- Contraceptive consumers: gender and the political economy of birth control in the 1930s / Andrea Tone -- Under the shadow of maternity: American women's responses to death and debility fears in ninteenth-century childbirth / Judith Walzer Leavitt -- And the results showed promise...physicians, childbirth, and southern black migrant women, 1916-1930: Pittsburgh as a case study / Carolyn Leonard Carson -- Race and "value": black and while illegitimate babies in the U.S.A., 1945 - 1965 / Rickie Solinger -- The invention of kleptomania / Elaine S. Abelson -- Diagnosing unnatural motherhood: nineteenth-century physicians and "puerperal insanity" / Nancy Theriot -- The training and practice of midwives: a Wisconsin study / Charlotte G. Borst -- White nurses, black midwives, and public health in Mississippi, 1920 - 1950 / Susan L. Smith -- "Neither for the drawing room nor for the kitchen": private duty nursing in Boston, 1873 - 1920 / Susan Reverby -- "They shall mount up with wings as eagles": historical images of black nurses, 1890 - 1950 / Darlene Clark Hine.

ISBN

• 0299159604 (alk. paper)
• 0299159647 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98014446^

OCLC

• 38521510
• SCSB-9946343

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library