Women and Health in America: Historical Readings, 2nd Edition

In this thoroughly updated second edition, Judith Walzer Leavitt, a leading authority on the history of women's health issues, has collected thirty-five articles representing important scholarship in this once-neglected field. Timely and fascinating, this volume is organized chronologically and then by topic, covering studies of women and health in the colonial and revolutionary periods and the nineteenth century through the Civil War. The remainder of the book concentrates on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and addresses such controversial issues as body image and physical fitness, sexuality, fertility, abortion and birth control, childbirth and motherhood, mental illness, women's health care providers (midwives, nurses, physicians), and health reform and public health.

• Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America
• Women's Health: Readings on Social, Economic, and Political Issues
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
• When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed
• The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America
• The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
• The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World (Rochester Studies in Medical History)
• American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
• Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave
• Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America