hysterectomy, capitalist patriarchy, and the medical abuse of women
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Costa, Mariarosa dalla > [ed]
- Contributor
- Samaritani, Riccardo
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- Z EUR 3 2007
- Thesaurus
- zwangerschappen, bevallingen, baarmoeders, baarmoederkanker, baarmoederverwijderingen, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The authors look at how much of contemporary medical practice still derives from a practice rooted in the witch-hunts that plagued Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, hundreds of thousands of midwives and healers along with other poor women? The essays (and accompanying glossaries and testimonials) collected in this book examine the historical, legal, ethical, psychological and medical aspects of deeply sexist practices in defining and treating issues of contemporary women's health. Contributors draw on theoretical perspectives developed in recent years by radical Italian feminism, revealing the complicity of widespread assumptions about the structures and roles of gender, the nuclear family, educational practices, and the state.