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An early feminist novel that is a wickedly funny slice of mid-nineteenth-century Americana peppered with details of the era's freakish medical tactics and leavened with a smart and sassy commentary about the societal restraints on women's physical and intellectual abilities.

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"This early feminist novel is a wickedly funny slice of mid-nineteenth-century Americana peppered with details of the era's freakish medical tactics and leavened with a smart and sassy commentary about the societal restraints on women's physical and intellectual abilities. Four stars." --Feminist Academic Press Column

Delias Doctors or A Glance behind the Scenes

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    A Paperback by Hannah Gardener Creamer, Nina Baym


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      Publisher: MO - University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: 10/7/2002 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780252071089, 978-0252071089
      ISBN10: 0252071085

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An early feminist novel that is a wickedly funny slice of mid-nineteenth-century Americana peppered with details of the era's freakish medical tactics and leavened with a smart and sassy commentary about the societal restraints on women's physical and intellectual abilities.

      Trade Review
      "This early feminist novel is a wickedly funny slice of mid-nineteenth-century Americana peppered with details of the era's freakish medical tactics and leavened with a smart and sassy commentary about the societal restraints on women's physical and intellectual abilities. Four stars." --Feminist Academic Press Column

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