Abstract
This paper asks questions about the resilience of radical gynaecological surgeries, such as hysterectomy and ovariectomy, from the moment of their widespread use in Western European and American practices of the late nineteenth century, to their renewed increase in the Indian subcontinent and Africa into our own time.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 673-697 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | History and Anthropology |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Bibliographical note
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© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Keywords
- European history of gynaecology
- global history of hysterectomy
- Gynaecology in India
- history and sociology of women’s sexual health
- medical anthropology of women’s health
