Bodily Autonomy in 19th Century American Women's Writing

Bodily Autonomy in 19th Century American Women's Writing: A Cornucopia of Pharmacopoeia investigates literary and autobiographical texts by nineteenth century American women, examining how women used herbal remedies to maintain bodily autonomy and how that autonomy was progressively eroded with the rise of plant-based tropane solanaceae alkaloids, and later, synthetic and anaesthetic drugs.Once ch...