Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and InstitutionBantam Books, 1977 - 328 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 45
Page 123
... obstetrics , " with subdivisions including craniotomy , embryotomy , hook extraction , and amputation of limbs . This was the specialty of the male physician as taught by Hippocrates and Galen ; Galen specifically declared it a male ...
... obstetrics , " with subdivisions including craniotomy , embryotomy , hook extraction , and amputation of limbs . This was the specialty of the male physician as taught by Hippocrates and Galen ; Galen specifically declared it a male ...
Page 129
... obstetrics could only move forward once the male midwife or physician took the place of the female midwife . Rongy states that " the backward state of obstetrical knowledge was the direct result of this complete monopoly by women . " 17 ...
... obstetrics could only move forward once the male midwife or physician took the place of the female midwife . Rongy states that " the backward state of obstetrical knowledge was the direct result of this complete monopoly by women . " 17 ...
Page 301
... Obstetrics , " Ameri- can Journal of Surgery , Vol . 11 , No. 3 ( March 1931 ) , pp . 564-72 . 10. Finney , op . cit ... Obstetrics 1500-1700 , " in Lectures on the History of Medicine : 1862-1932 ( Philadelphia : W. B. Saunders , 1933 ) ...
... Obstetrics , " Ameri- can Journal of Surgery , Vol . 11 , No. 3 ( March 1931 ) , pp . 564-72 . 10. Finney , op . cit ... Obstetrics 1500-1700 , " in Lectures on the History of Medicine : 1862-1932 ( Philadelphia : W. B. Saunders , 1933 ) ...
Contents
Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abortion Adrienne Rich anger baby Bachofen become biological born breast Briffault Brigitte Jordan CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ castration century chil child child-care childbirth consciousness created CRUZ The University culture daughter death dren early Erich Neumann existence experience father fear feel felt feminine feminist forceps Freud giving birth Goddess guilt hand human husband Ibid images infant infanticide institution of motherhood Jane Karen Horney labor lives male Margaret Margaret Mead Mary Daly masculine maternal means menstrual ment Michulski midwife midwifery misogyny moth mother Mysteries myth natural Neumann never nurture obstetrical obstetrician pain patriarchal penis perceived physical physician powerless pregnancy prepatriarchal psychic rape relationship Robert Briffault role seems sense sexual Shulamith Firestone Simone de Beauvoir simply social society sons suffering Susan Griffin taboo tion University Library UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA violence wife woman women write York young