Author Alena Dillon joins us for this week’s mini to discuss the medical treatment of women and mothers and how it’s evolved over time. We’ll touch on hysteria, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and some of the things that surprised us about giving birth.
Discussed in this episode:
Eyes Turned Skyward by Alena Dillon
My Body Is a Big, Fat Temple by Alena Dillon
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
Tokology: A Book for Every Woman Alice B. Stockham
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Ida B. Craddock with Amy Sohn
For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English
“Maternal Instinct is a Myth that Man Created” by Chelsea Conoboy (NYTimes)
Lost Ladies of Lit episode with Rachel Vorona Cotes
Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cotes
“Abortion was once common practice…” (NPR)
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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