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9 entries match Obstetrics & Reproductive [C13 / G02.403.615] · Social & Political History [K01.850]

1978 CE

#7999

Abortion in America: The origins and evolution of national policy, 1800-1900.

2005 CE

#10535

Japanese American midwives: Culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950.

2018 CE

#10645

Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.

2013 CE

#12023

Ritual and conflict: The social relations of childbirth in early modern England.

"This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to th…

1995 CE

#12022

The making of man-midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770.

"In England in the seventeenth century, childbirth was the province of women. The midwife ran the birth, helped by female "gossips"; men, including the doctors of the day, were excluded both from the delivery and from…

2008 CE

#9967

The sterilization movement and global fertility in the twentieth century.

2007 CE

#13577

Vernacular bodies: The politics of reproduction in Early Modern England.

"Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women …

1998 CE

#8646

When abortion was a crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973.

1970 CE

#10554

Women and their bodies.

This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…