Medical Treatment of Women and Mothers with Alena Dillon

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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

Amy Schumer

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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