Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection by Katharine Park

Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection

Katharine Park

419 pages 2006

3 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Toward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began to devote increasing attention to what they called -women's secrets, - by which they meant female sexuality and generation. At the same time, Italian physicians and surgeons...

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