Full Description
Now a classic in the field, The Horrors of the Half-KnownLife is an important foundational text in the construction of masculinity, female identity, and the history of midwivery.
Contents
Part I The Sexes in Tocqueville's America; Chapter 1 The American Man; Chapter 2 The Arena; Chapter 3 Work and Sex; Chapter 4 Democratic Fathers and Democratic Sons; Chapter 5 Freedom of Intercourse; Chapter 6 Strong Men over Orderly Women; Part II From Midwives to Gynecologists; Chapter 7 The Absence of Midwives from America; Chapter 8 Democratic Doctors; Chapter 9 The Rise of Gynecology; Chapter 10 Architect of the Vagina; Chapter 11 Sexual Surgery; Part III The Lightning-Rod Man; Chapter 12 The Reverend John Todd; Chapter 13 Primers for Anxiety; Chapter 14 Todd's Masturbation Phobia; Chapter 15 The Spermatic Economy and Proto-Sublimation; Chapter 16 Men Earn—Women Spend; Chapter 17 Woman's Refinement; Chapter 18 Sex and Anarchy; Chapter 19 From Mother to Mother Earth; Part IV Augustus Kinsley Gardner; Chapter 20 Dr. Gardner's Education; Chapter 21 Gardner's Career; Chapter 22 The Physical Decline of American Women; Chapter 23 Punishing Women; Chapter 24 The Great Organ of Communication;