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MITCHINSON, Wendy. Nature of Their Bodies : Women and Their Doctors in Victorian Canada.
University of Toronto Press, Toronto , 1991, ISBN:0802068405
MITCHINSON, Wendy. The Nature of Their Bodies : Women and Their Doctors in Victorian Canada. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (1991). Pp [i]-ix,(1),[1]-474,(2),+ 8 pp plates. Index. 8vo, illustrated tan card covers. Contents : 1. The Victorian World: Doctors, Science and 'Woman' 2. The Frailtyof Woman. 3. Three Mysteries: Puberty, Menstruation, and Menopause. 4. Sex uality in Women. 5. A Modern Issue Emerges: Birth Control. 6. The Emergenceof Medical Obstetrics. 7. Changing Obstetric Care. 8. The Rise of Gynaecol ogy. 9. Gynaecological Surgery. 10. Women and Mental Health. 11. Insane Women: Their Symptoms and Treatment. "At the end of the century when the bicycling craze was at its peak, its medical advantages and disadvantages were debated. The Dominion Medical Monthly and Ontario Medical Journal, the medical journal most hostile to women cycling, led the attack. An 1896 editorialargued that bicycle riding was unhealthy for women and that position was r eiterated the next year: 'The best saddle does not meet the comforts or requirements of the female pelvis, that aside from the pedal motion that ever tends to provoke erethism, the jolt of the machine is not without evil effect upon the uterus and other generative organs, and is especially apt . . .to induce laxity, version, prolapse, with all the concomitants of endometr itis, menorrhagia, etc." Very good. 15.00
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