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In this energetic new study, Wendy Mitchinson traces medical perspectives on the treatment of women in Canada in the first half of the twentieth century. It is based on in-depth research in a variety of archival sources, including Canadian medical journals, textbooks used in many of Canada's medical faculties, popular health literature, patient case records, and hospital annual reports, as well as interviews with women who lived during the period.
Each chapter examines events throughout a woman's life cycle - puberty, menstruation, sexuality, marriage and motherhood - and the health problems connected to them - infertility, birth control and abortion, gynaecology, cancer, nervous disorders, and menopause. Mitchinson provides a sensitive understanding of the physician/patient relationship, the unease of many doctors about the bodies of their female patients, as well as overriding concerns about the relationship between female and male bodies. Throughout the book, Mitchinson takes care to examine the roles and agency of both patients and practitioners as diverse individuals.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One
Woman's Place
Chapter Two
Growing Up and Facing Puberty
Chapter Three
"You can't be at your best when you're sitting in a swamp": Menstruation
Chapter Four
Understanding Sexuality
Chapter Five
Advice on Marriage and Motherhood
Chapter Six
"On the fringe of knowledge": Infertility
Chapter Seven
Controlling Fertility: Birth Control and Abortion
Chapter Eight
"The ... mischievous tendency of specialism": Gynaecology
Chapter Nine
The Womanly Body: A Cancer Threat
Chapter Ten
The Mind's Health
Chapter Eleven
Menopause: The End of Womanhood
Conclusion
Notes on Sources and Methodology
