Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

Deirdre Cooper Owens

165 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative slow-paced
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The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotom...

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