UID:
edocfu_9959232200602883
Format:
1 online resource (401 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-135-95985-4
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1-135-95986-2
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1-280-11543-2
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0-203-00980-0
Content:
Now a classic in the field, The Horrors of the Half-Known Life is an important foundational text in the construction of masculinity, female identity, and the history of midwivery.
Note:
Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1976. With new introd.
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"Second edition"--P. xi.
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction to the Second Edition; Introduction to the First Edition; 1 The American Man; 2 The Arena; 3 Work and Sex; 4 Democratic Fathers and Democratic Sons; 5 Freedom of Intercourse; 6 Strong Men over Orderly Women; 7 The Absence of Midwives from America; 8 Democratic Doctors; 9 The Rise of Gynecology; 10 Architect of the Vagina; 11 Sexual Surgery; 12 The Reverend John Todd; 13 Primers for Anxiety; 14 Todd's Masturbation Phobia; 15 The Spermatic Economy and Proto-Sublimation; 16 Men Earn-Women Spend; 17 Woman's Refinement
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18 Sex and Anarchy19 From Mother to Mother Earth; 20 Dr. Gardner's Education; 21 Gardner's Career; 22 The Physical Decline of American Women; 23 Punishing Women; 24 The Great Organ of Communication; Notes to Chapters; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-138-15509-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-92500-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203009802
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