Medical Bondage and the Birth of American Gynecology
The 13th Annual Margaret Morrison Distinguished Lecture in Women’s History
Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens
Associate Professor of History at Queens College, CUNY
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Simmons A, Tepper Quad
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In her prize-winning book, Medical Bondage, Cooper Owens explores how experimental surgeries on enslaved and working-poor women created the specialty of American gynecology. She shows how these experiments also shaped nineteenth-century Americans' understanding of race. Merging women’s medical and social history, Cooper Owens pivots away from a near exclusive focus on white men to look instead at Black and Irish women's lives—as well as their bodies—to offer a new origins story for American medicine.
Co-sponsored by: The Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy and the University Lecture Series
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