Women and Health in America, 2nd Ed.: Historical Readings

In this thoroughly updated second edition, Judith Walzer Leavitt, a leading authority on the history of women's health issues, has collected thirty-five articles representing important scholarship in this once-neglected field. Timely and fascinating, this volume is organized chronologically and then by topic, covering studies of women and health in the colonial and revolutionary periods and the nineteenth century through the Civil War. The remainder of the book concentrates on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and addresses such controversial issues as body image and physical fitness, sexuality, fertility, abortion and birth control, childbirth and motherhood, mental illness, women's health care providers (midwives, nurses, physicians), and health reform and public health.


Author: Judith W. Leavitt
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 03/26/1999
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.34lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.99w x 1.44d
ISBN13: 9780299159641
ISBN10: 0299159647
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Medical | History

About the Author
Judith Walzer Leavitt is Ruth Bleier Professor of History of Medicine, History of Science, and Women's Studies and the associate dean of faculty at the medical school, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her many books include The Healthiest City and Sickness and Health in America, both also available from the University of Wisconsin Press, as well as Typhoid Mary and Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America 1750-1950.