Napoleon and the woman question : discourses of the other sex in French education, medicine, and medical law 1799-1815 / June K. Burton ; foreword by Susan P. Conner.

Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, [2007], ©2007.

xxx, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-277) and index.

Napoleon and the woman question -- Imperial women's education : theory and practice -- Feminism and domesticity in humanistic manuals of "domestic science," home economics, and hygiene -- The first national system of midwifery education -- The biomedical foundations of domesticity : discourses of surgeons -- The glandular theory of female difference : Dr. Cabanis and the "science of man" -- Women's issues in Napoleonic-era textbooks of legal medicine -- Medical discourse in criminal cases : infanticide and woman's nature -- The nineteenth-century discourse of Napoleon's program to end infanticide -- Women's medicine and surgery from the patient's point of view : Adrienne Noailles Lafayette and Frances Burney d'Arblay -- Reflections.