Proving Pregnancy : Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America /
"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"--
Main Author: | Turner, Felicity M. (Author) |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2022]
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Subjects: | |
Online Access: | Texto completo |
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