@article{ref1,
title="Emotions, fertility, and the 1940s woman",
journal="Journal of public health policy",
year="2003",
author="Epstein, Randi Hutter",
volume="24",
number="2",
pages="195-211",
abstract="This paper looks at the ways that women's reproductive issues, particularly sterility, were explained during the post-World War II period. In the absence of a clear physiological basis, sterility was depicted as a product of psychoanalytic causes rooted in women's psychology. When women were yearning for a reason for their infertility and desperate for effective treatments, a psychoanalytic framework treated deficiencies lurking in the field of infertility. Framing infertility within a psychiatric construct influenced how women were treated by their medical specialists and how they were perceived by a public that expected married women to reproduce. An infertile woman was already considered a failure by society. By establishing her illness within the context of her own repressed desires, she was no longer an unwitting victim, but a culprit.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0197-5897",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}