The Science of Woman
Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800–1929

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I. The Problem of Femininity:
1. Woman's sexuality and population concerns
2. Woman's place in nature
3. Nature and the environment
4. A theory of femininity
5. Physiology and social roles
Part II. Men-Midwives and Medicine: The Origins of a Profession:
6. Midwives and accoucheurs
7. The 'obstetric revolution' and eighteenth-century medical politics
8. The nineteenth century: obstetrics, gynaecology and general practice
9. Educated accoucheurs
Part III. The Rise of the Women's Hospitals:
10. Hospitals, specialists and nineteenth-century medicine
11. The first women's hospital
12. A moral institution
13. The Chelsea Hospital for Women
Part IV. Woman and her diseases:
14. The pathology of femininity
15. Surgical analysis
16. Penetrating private parts: the 'speculum question'
17. Precept and practice
Part V. The 'Unsexing' of Women:
18. Early controversies
19. A question of values
20. Pathological pregnancies
21. The triumph of ovariotomy
22. The Imlach affair
Part VI. From the British Gynaecological Society to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists:
23. The 'handcuffed obstetrician'
24. The Meadows incident
25. A British gynaecological society
26. A college of obstetricians and gynaecologists
27. Restructuring the profession
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography.

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