The politics of female pain: women's citizenship, twilight sleep and the early birth control movement.
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DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2017-011419
Abstract: The medical intervention of ‘twilight sleep’, or the use of a scopolamine–morphine mixture to anaesthetise labouring women, caused a furore among doctors and early 20th-century feminists. Suffragists and women’s rights advocates led the Twilight Sleep… read more here.
Keywords: birth control; birth; control movement; twilight sleep ... See more keywords