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Napoleon and the woman question : discourses of the other sex in French education, medicine, and medical law 1799-1815
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Title
Napoleon and the woman question : discourses of the other sex in French education, medicine, and medical law 1799-1815 / June K. Burton ; foreword by Susan P. Conner.
ISBN
9780896725591 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0896725596 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2007.
Physical Description
xxx, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Summary
"Examination of predominantly primary sources focuses on discourses of women and women's issues in light of the prevailing view of the relationship between the physical and the moral in feminine bodies and minds. Burton discusses France's first national system of midwifery education, women's medicine and surgery, and medical law"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 12, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [258]-277) and index.
Contents
Napoleon and the woman question
Imperial women's education : theory and practice
Feminism and domesticity in humanistic manuals of "domestic science," home economics, and hygiene
The first national system of midwifery education
The biomedical foundations of domesticity : discourses of surgeons
The glandular theory of female difference : Dr. Cabanis and the "science of man"
Women's issues in Napoleonic-era textbooks of legal medicine
Medical discourse in criminal cases : infanticide and woman's nature
The nineteenth-century discourse of Napoleon's program to end infanticide
Women's medicine and surgery from the patient's point of view : Adrienne Noailles Lafayette and Frances Burney d'Arblay
Reflections.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Women's Health - history - France.
History of Medicine - France.
History, 19th Century - France.
Jurisprudence - France.
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