Gynaecological Proletarians
Anne Summers, 10 October 1991
The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession
by Catriona Blake.
Women’s Press, 254 pp., £6.95, October 1990,0 7043 4239 1 Show More
by Catriona Blake.
Women’s Press, 254 pp., £6.95, October 1990,
Women under the Knife: A History of Surgery
by Ann Dally.
Radius, 289 pp., £18.99, April 1991,9780091745080 Show More
by Ann Dally.
Radius, 289 pp., £18.99, April 1991,
The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929
by Ornella Moscucci.
Cambridge, 278 pp., £35, April 1991,0 521 32741 5 Show More
by Ornella Moscucci.
Cambridge, 278 pp., £35, April 1991,
“... exploitation, inspired by greed, opportunism and, for good measure, possibly sadism and voyeurism. Catriona Blake’s The Charge of the Parasols shows that these were all live issues for the 19th-century feminists on both sides of the Atlantic who campaigned for women’s entry into the medical profession. Ann Dally and Ornella Moscucci, who discuss ... ”