Book ID: CBB545634392

Women's medicine: Sex, family planning and British female doctors in transnational perspective, 1920–70 (2020)

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Rusterholz, Caroline (Author)


Manchester University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 276
Language: English

Women’s medicine highlights British female doctors’ key contribution to the production and circulation of scientific knowledge around contraception, family planning and sexual disorders between 1920–70. It argues that women doctors were pivotal in developing a holistic approach to family planning and transmitting it across borders, playing a more prominent role in shaping scientific and medical knowledge than previously acknowledged. Illuminating women doctors’ agency in the male-dominated field of medicine, this book reveals their practical engagement with birth control and later family planning clinics in Britain, their participation in the development of the international movement and their influence on French doctors. Drawing on a wide range of archived and published medical materials, Rusterholz sheds light on the strategies British female doctors used and the alliances they made to put forward their medical agenda and position themselves as experts and leaders.

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Authors & Contributors
Szuhan, Natasha
López, Raúl Necochea
Moulds, Alison
Rusterholz, Caroline
Crosetti, Anne-Sophie
Waidzunas, Thomas John
Concepts
Birth control; contraception; sterilization
Family planning
Medicine
Women in medicine
Women and health
Authority of medicine
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
United States
Great Britain
Peru
France
England
Delaware (U.S.)
Institutions
Family Planning Association (FPA)
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