TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Emotions, fertility, and the 1940s woman
JO  - Journal of public health policy
A1  - Epstein, Randi Hutter
SP  - 195
EP  - 211
VL  - 24
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0197-5897
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -