Documents of the Rose Playhouse (Revised EDN) (Revels Plays Companion Library) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719058015 ISBN 13: 9780719058011

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Women’s medicine highlights British female doctors’ key contribution to the production and circulation of scientific knowledge around contraception, family planning and sexual disorders between 1920–70. It argues that women doctors were pivotal in developing a holistic approach to family planning and transmitting it across borders, playing a more prominent role in shaping scientific and medical knowledge than previously acknowledged. Illuminating women doctors’ agency in the male-dominated field of medicine, this book reveals their practical engagement with birth control and later family planning clinics in Britain, their participation in the development of the international movement and their influence on French doctors. Drawing on a wide range of archived and published medical materials, Rusterholz sheds light on the strategies British female doctors used and the alliances they made to put forward their medical agenda and position themselves as experts and leaders. -- .

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About the Authors

Carol Chillington Rutter teaches English at the University of Warwick.

Carol Chillington Rutter teaches English at the University of Warwick.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719058015
• ISBN 13: 9780719058011
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Rutter Carol Chillington