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Volume 11 Women' s Bodies: Health and Childbirth |
Nancy F. Cott
K. G. Saur
Volume 11 Women' s Bodies: Health and Childbirth
Voluntary Motherhood: The Beginnings of Feminist Birth Control Ideas in the United States
Authors

LINDA GORDON

ARI Id

1666679412769_7334215

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Pages

213

DOI

10.1515/9783110976328.213

Chapter URL

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110976328.213/html

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Contents
v
Series Preface
ix
Introduction
xi
“On the Importance of the Obstetrick Art”: Changing Customs of Childbirth in America, 1760 to 1825
CATHERINE M. SCHOLTEN
3
Women, Menstruation, and Nineteenth-Century Medicine
VERN BULLOUGH; MARTHA VOGHT
23
The Female Animal: Medical and Biological Views of Woman and Her Role in Nineteenth-Century America
CARROLL SMITH-ROSENBERG; CHARLES ROSENBERG
40
“The Fashionable Diseases”: Women’s Complaints and Their Treatment in Nineteenth-Century America
ANN DOUGLAS WOOD
65
Women as Victims of Medical Experimentation: J. Marion Sims’ Surgery on Slave Women, 1845–1850
DIANA E. AXELSEN
93
The Hysterical Woman: Sex Roles and Role Conflict in 19thcentury America
CARROLL SMITH-ROSENBERG
101
Smothered Slave Infants: Were Slave Mothers at Fault?
MICHAEL P. JOHNSON
128
Making Women Modern: Middle Class Women and Health Reform in 19th Century America
REGINA MARKELL MORANTZ
156
From Maidenhood to Menopause: Sex Education for Women in Victorian America
JOHN S. HALLER
174
Birthing and Anesthesia: The Debate over Twilight Sleep
JUDITH WALZER LEAVITT
195
Voluntary Motherhood: The Beginnings of Feminist Birth Control Ideas in the United States
LINDA GORDON
213
Chlorotic Girls, 1870–1920: A Historical Perspective on Female Adolescence
JOAN JACOBS BRUMBERG
231
Under the Shadow of Maternity: American Women's Responses to Death and Debility Fears in Nineteenth-Century Childbirth
JUDITH WALZER LEAVITT
252
The American Midwife Controversy: A Crisis of Professionalization
FRANCES E. KOBRIN
278
Forgotten Women: American Midwives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
JUDY BARRETT LITOFF
292
The Immigrant Midwives of Lawrence: The Conflict between Law and Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Massachusetts
EUGENE DECLERCQ; RICHARD LACROIX
309
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