FEMALE COMPLAINTS:; Lydia Pinkham and the business of women's medicine
by STAGE, Sarah
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- first
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- Seller
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Lanesborough, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
NY: Norton, 1979. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 304. Notes, sources, index. Illustrated. Edges little soiled, o/w a VG tight copy in price-clipped and little chipped and soiled dj.OP. The author tells the story of Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound, showing, as she does so, how cultural attitudes toward female sexuality and the place of women have changed in American society.
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- Bookseller
- Second Life Books Inc (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42019
- Title
- FEMALE COMPLAINTS:; Lydia Pinkham and the business of women's medicine
- Author
- STAGE, Sarah
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Norton
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1979
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Second Life Books Inc
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Lanesborough, Massachusetts
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