ABSTRACT

Now a classic in the field, The Horrors of the Half-Known Life is an important foundational text in the construction of masculinity, female identity, and the history of midwivery.

part |54 pages

The Sexes in Tocqueville's America

chapter |4 pages

The American Man

chapter |10 pages

The Arena

chapter |4 pages

Work and Sex

chapter |13 pages

Democratic Fathers and Democratic Sons

chapter |8 pages

Freedom of Intercourse

chapter |12 pages

Strong Men over Orderly Women

part |70 pages

From Midwives to Gynecologists

chapter |10 pages

The Absence of Midwives from America

chapter |8 pages

Democratic Doctors

chapter |10 pages

The Rise of Gynecology

chapter |27 pages

Architect of the Vagina

chapter |12 pages

Sexual Surgery

part |93 pages

The Lightning-Rod Man

chapter |19 pages

The Reverend John Todd

chapter |8 pages

Primers for Anxiety

chapter |12 pages

Todd's Masturbation Phobia

chapter |8 pages

Men Earn—Women Spend

chapter |5 pages

Woman's Refinement

chapter |11 pages

Sex and Anarchy

chapter |11 pages

From Mother to Mother Earth

part |80 pages

Augustus Kinsley Gardner

chapter |14 pages

Dr. Gardner's Education

chapter |12 pages

Gardner's Career

chapter |19 pages

The Physical Decline of American Women

chapter |20 pages

Punishing Women

chapter |12 pages

The Great Organ of Communication