FEMALE COMPLAINTS:; Lydia Pinkham and the business of women's medicine
first edition
1979 · NY
by STAGE, Sarah
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. (Inventory #: 42019)