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,
“... of the Atlantic who campaigned for women’s entry into the medical profession. Ann Dally and Ornella Moscucci, who discuss British and American surgical practice in this period, address questions of feminist politics more obliquely: the former in a survey designed explicitly to dedemonise this history for the lay-person; the latter in a major work ... ”
