Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction
by:
Emily Martin (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780807046050 (0807046051)
Publish date: May 13th 1989
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pages no: 296
Edition language: English
Medical viewpoints and terminology may be used as an index to gauge the way society views a woman’s body. As various critics have noted, the language of women’s health care—particularly concerning reproduction and sexual practice—could be described as the “rhetoric of peril.” Ever since male physici...