Body failure : medical views of women, 1900-1950 / Wendy Mitchinson.

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2013]

xiii, 414 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (299-404) and index.

Woman's Place -- Growing Up and Facing Puberty -- "You can't be at your best when you're sitting in a swamp": Menstruation -- Understanding Sexuality -- Advice on Marriage and Motherhood -- "On the fringe of knowledge": Infertility -- Controlling Fertility: Birth Control and Abortion -- "The mischievous tendency of specialism": Gynaecology -- The Womanly Body: A Cancer Threat -- The Mind's Health -- Menopause: The End of Womanhood.