Inventing motherhood: The consequences of an ideal

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Dally, Ann

Psychology & Counseling

Schocken

Explains how a trend toward separating the ideal of motherhood from daily life parallels evolution in mothering theory and practice and analyze the impact of motherhood on a woman's psychological, emotional, and social well-being

Inventing Motherhood: The Consequences Of An Ideal

Women's Health

Burnett Books Ltd.

"Women Under the Knife" is the story of how modern surgery developed through experiments on women. In 1811 Fanny Burney, then Madame d'Arblay, wrote a harrowing journal about an operation she had endured for breast cancer. These were the days before anaesthetics, and many people preferred to suffer their pain -- whatever the consequences -- rather than to submit to the terrifying hands of the surgeons. And many surgeons dared not do what they knew in theory would relieve the suffering of their patients. Because operations on ovaries were the major development of internal surgery in the nineteenth century, it was women who bore the brunt of surgical experimentation and who also reaped the rewards. Their need was great, but so was their compliance. From the first operation in America in 1809, the saving of much suffering was achieved at the expense of prolonged surgery endured by both black slaves and prosperous whites. Later in the Victorian era there was even a craze for mutilating operations such as 'spaying' and clitoridectomies to 'cure' hysteria and masturbation, as well as questionable interventionist surgery in pregnancy and childbirth which still continues to this day. The story continues with the obstacles faced by the earliest women doctors, such as Elizabeth Blackwell and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. "Women Under the Knife" is an extraordinary history, giving a vivid picture -- literary, medical and sociological -- of Victorian society in America and Europe. 1991 edition

Women Under The Knife

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Dr Ann Dally was trained in the idealistic early years of the NHS. In 1979 she began seeing an increasing number of long-term heroin addicts who had, until recently, been provided with legal prescriptions by the NHS. Arbitrary policy changes had forced them either on to the black market or to seek a sympathetic private doctor. Dr Dally's treatment of them and her outspoken criticism of official politics won her powerful enemies, and on three separate occasions she was "tried" by the General Medical Council.

A Doctor's Story

Politics & Social Sciences

Savage, Wendy

Social Sciences

Pan/Macmillan

In the nineteenth century, major developments in internal surgery were due to operations on ovaries. Women bore the brunt of surgical experimentation and also reaped its rewards. Their need was great, but so was their compliance. From the first operation in America in 1809, much suffering was relieved at the expense of prolonged surgery endured by both black slaves and prosperous whites. Later, in the Victorian era, many surgeons looked at certain types of behavior as reasons for mutilating operations. Such procedures as "spaying" and clitoridectomies were performed to "cure" hysteria and masturbation, as well as questionable interventionalist surgery in pregnancy and childbirth which still continue today. Women Under the Knife is an extraordinary history, giving a vivid picture--medical, literary, and sociological--of Victorian society in America and Europe.

Women Under the Knife: A History of Surgery

History

World

Routledge

Inventing Motherhood

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

Explains how a trend toward separating the ideal of motherhood from daily life parallels evolution in mothering theory and practice and analyze the impact of motherhood on a woman's psychological, emotional, and social well-being

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