Title Proving pregnancy : gender, law, and medical knowledge in nineteenth-century America / Felicity M. Turner

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 228 pages) : illustrations Series Gender and American culture Gender & American culture. Contents An anatomy of knowledge -- Calling the midwife -- The physician and the corpse -- Slavery, civilization, and the body politic -- Freedom and the reconstruction of bodies -- From midwives to physicians -- From bodies to minds -- The emergence of rights Summary "Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how women - Black and white, enslaved and free - gradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Project MUSE platform, viewed September 14, 2022) Subject Infanticide -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century Human reproduction -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century Human body -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century Sex discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century Pregnancy -- Signs and diagnosis. Intangible property. MEDICAL / History Human body -- Law and legislation Human reproduction -- Law and legislation Infanticide -- Law and legislation Intangible property Pregnancy -- Signs and diagnosis Sex discrimination -- Law and legislation Women's rights Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law. Law. United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2022015148 ISBN 9781469669724 1469669722 9781469669717 1469669714

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