Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America

Author/Contributor(s):	Turner, Felicity M
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	09/06/2022
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.