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Routledge Women's Bodies: A Social History of Women's Encounter with Health, Ill-Health and Medicine

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What has been the source of women's oppression by men? Shorter argues that women were victimized by their own bodies. Exploring five centuries of medical records and folklore from Europe and the US, he shows how pregnancy, childbirth, and gynecological disease have kept women in positions of social

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paperback
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Amazon UK
Release Date
31 December 1990
Listed Since
04 January 2007

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