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The Cure for Women

By Lydia Reeder

The Cure for Women Medicine

The Cure for Women

By Lydia Reeder

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"Distorting Darwin's evolution theory, ... haughty [male Victorian] physicians proclaimed in bestselling books that women should never be allowed to attend college or enter a profession because their menstrual cycles made them perpetually sick. Motherhood was their constitution and duty. Into the midst of this turmoil marched tiny, dynamic Mary Putnam Jacobi, daughter of New York publisher George Palmer Putnam and the first woman to be accepted into the world-renowned Sorbonne medical school in Paris. As one of the best-educated doctors in the world, she returned to New York for the fight of her life. Aided by other prominent women physicians and suffragists, Jacobi conducted the first-ever data-backed, scientific research on women's reproductive biology. The results of her studies shook the foundations of medical science and higher education. Full of larger-than-life characters and cinematically written, [this book] documents the birth of a sexist science still haunting us today as the fight for control of women's bodies and lives continues"--
Product details
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
2024-12-03
Publication Date:
2024-12-03
Publisher:
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1250284457
ISBN13:
9781250284457
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
517 g
Height:
169 cm
Width:
243 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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