Title: A history of women's bodies /
Authors: Shorter, Edward.
Date: 1982
Publisher: Basic Books,
Physical description: xiv, 398 pages ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: R
Contents: Women, men, and bodies -- Men, women, and sex -- The architecture of the body -- A history of the birth experience -- Traditional births: women take charge -- A typical birth then -- Pain and death in childbirth -- Infection after delivery -- The rise of the birth experience -- Abortion -- Other physical differences between men and women -- Did women live longer than men? If not, why not? -- Diseased of sexual significance -- Changing alliances and the end of victimization.
Subject headings (LCSH): Childbirth--History.; Obstetrics--History.; Sex customs--History.; Women--Physiology--History.