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Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America - Gender and American Culture Felicity M. Turner
Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America - Gender and American Culture
Felicity M. Turner
Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how women - Black and white, enslaved and free - gradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals.
256 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 6, 2022 |
| ISBN13 | 9781469669694 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Pages | 246 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 586 g |
| Language | English |