2006
DOI: 10.3138/cbmh.23.1.49
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“The Glands of Destiny:” Hygiene, Hormones and English Women Doctors in the First Half of the 20th Century

Abstract: Abstract. Members of the English Medical Women's Federation, founded in 1917, were at the forefront of research into menstruation and menopause in the interwar years. As new hormonal understandings of the menstrual cycle emerged, women doctors and international sanitary product companies sought to educate women about their changing bodies and to reconfigure menstruation and menopause as minor events in women's lives which in no way inhibited their activities. Changing educational and employment patterns of wom… Show more

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