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Explaining feminists and gynecologists to each other
Deals with the background to modern attitudes towards women and gynaecology. The nineteenth century idea that everything wrong with a woman MUST be due to her reproductive system which should therefore be surgically altered or removed. The boost this gave to the development of surgery and the skills of surgeons. I have written a sequel to this book called 'Fantasy Surgery, published by Rodopi, Atlanta and Amsterdam, 1996.
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Deals with the background to modern attitudes towards women and gynaecology. The nineteenth century idea that everything wrong with a woman MUST be due to her reproductive system which should therefore be surgically altered or removed. The boost this gave to the development of surgery and the skills of surgeons. I have written a sequel to this book called 'Fantasy Surgery, published by Rodopi, Atlanta and Amsterdam, 1996.
Because caesarian operations began the major development of internal surgery in the 19th century, it was women who bore the brunt of surgical experimentation and who also reaped its rewards. Dally chronicles the development of internal surgery from the earliest operations in America, Edinburgh, Paris and London. She tells the story through the lives of the leading surgeons and patients of the day, through contemporary authors such as Fanny Burney (who wrote a harrowing description of her mastectomy), and builds up a picture of Victorian society and the position of women within it, the difficulties faced by women doctors, sinister developments such as cliterodectomies and the use of black women slaves as guinea pigs.
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- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 009174508X
- ISBN 13 9780091745080
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