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100 1 $aThompson, Lana.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98102933
245 14 $aThe wandering womb :$ba cultural history of outrageous beliefs about women /$cby Lana Thompson ; foreword by Vern L. Bullough.
260 $aAmherst, NY :$bPrometheus Books,$c1999.
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300 $a204 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tForeword /$rVern L. Bullough --$gCh. 1.$tAncient Themes --$gCh. 2.$tEve's Legacy --$gCh. 3.$tThe Medieval Uterus --$gCh. 4.$tThe Renaissance Uterus --$gCh. 5.$tThe Baroque Uterus --$gCh. 6.$tThe Enlightenment Uterus --$gCh. 7.$tThe Victorian Uterus --$gCh. 8.$tThe Twentieth-Century Uterus --$gCh. 9.$tThe Postmodern Uterus --$gApp. I.$tOn Difficult Labor: Paul of Aegina (625-690 C.E.) --$gApp. II.$tFrom The Anatomy of Melancholy: Robert Burton (1577-1640 C.E.) --$gApp. III.$tThe Pill --$gApp. IV.$tThe "Birthezz" Correspondence.
520 $aThe Wandering Womb is a provocative tour through four thousand years of Western civilization and its outrageous beliefs about women. In ancient Egypt, for example, the womb was regarded as an entity unto itself capable of "wandering" throughout the body if sexually unfulfilled, crowding the other organs and causing tissue damage, suffocation, and a variety of illnesses.
520 8 $aAs author Lana Thompson points out, these and similar ideas became entwined in centuries of medical ignorance and religious superstition. But this is not an exclusively "ancient" or "primitive" phenomenon: As late as the nineteenth century, many doctors opposed the use of anesthesia in childbirth because women had been condemned by God to "bring forth children in sorrow.".
520 8 $aThe Wandering Womb is a fascinating, amusing, and sometimes infuriating romp through the bedrooms, birthing rooms, madhouses, menstrual huts, and ivory towers of Western civilization. Throughout its richly illustrated pages, Lana Thompson recounts how and why women came to be, in a very real sense, sexually "enslaved."
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650 0 $aHuman body$xFolklore.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90003019
650 0 $aSex$xFolklore.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120551
650 0 $aSex$xMythology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90003013
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