Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America by Felicity M. Turner
Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America

Felicity M. Turner

Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America

Felicity M. Turner

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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 leg...

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