The Politics of Woman: Professionalization and Constructions of Gender in Swedish Gynaecology1

1. Ulrika Nilsson, Kampen om Kvinnan: Professionalisering och konstruktioner av kön i svensk gynekologi 1860–1925 (The Politics of Woman: Professionalization and Constructions of Gender in Swedish Gynaecology, 1860–1925; diss., Uppsala, 2003). The dissertation was defended at Uppsala University, December 5, 2003. A rewritten version, “Det heta könet: Gynekologin i Sverige kring förra sekelskiftet”, was published by Wahlström & Widstrand in August 2005.

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1. Ulrika Nilsson, Kampen om Kvinnan: Professionalisering och konstruktioner av kön i svensk gynekologi 1860–1925 (The Politics of Woman: Professionalization and Constructions of Gender in Swedish Gynaecology, 1860–1925; diss., Uppsala, 2003). The dissertation was defended at Uppsala University, December 5, 2003. A rewritten version, “Det heta könet: Gynekologin i Sverige kring förra sekelskiftet”, was published by Wahlström & Widstrand in August 2005.

2. Cf. Karin Johannisson, Den mörka kontinenten: Kvinnan, medicinen och fin‐de‐siècle (The Dark Continent: Woman, Medicine and fin‐de‐siècle) (Stockholm, 1994); Ludmilla Jordanova, Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries (New York, 1989); Helen King, Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece (London & New York, 1998); Ornella Moscucci, The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England 1800–1929 (Cambridge, 1990). See also Nelly Oudshoorn, Beyond the Natural Body: An Archeology of Sex Hormones (London & New York, 1994); Londa Schiebinger, The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science (London & Harvard, Mass., 1989, 1991), Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science (Boston, 1993); Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (London & Cambridge, Mass., 1990).