Sex and Suffering
Women's Health and a Women's Hospital
$49.49
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
14 September 1995
Summary
A vivid social history of health and disease, medicine and nursing, and the intimate lives of ordinary women.Sex and Suffering is a ground-breaking work. It tells the often shocking story of women’s desperation to gain control over their lives and their health, and of medicine’s struggle to comprehend and manage the mysteries of nature.It offers a graphic and revealing history of childbirth in Australia; of the medical care of women; of nursing and gender roles; and of the impact of immigrati…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522849028 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522849024 |
| Author: | Janet McCalman |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 14 September 1995 |
| Weight: | 762g |
| Dimensions: | 260mm x 186mm x 25mm |
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About The Author
Janet McCalman
Janet McCalman is known for her award-winning books Struggletown, Journeyings and Sex and Suffering, all published by MUP. She co-edited with Emma Dawson What Happens Next- Reconstructing Australia after Covid-19’ in 2020. For over twenty years she taught and researched interdisciplinary history at the University of Melbourne. In 2018 she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia.
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