You can't help but love the Index entry on p. 1116:
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Chancroid, 752
Chauvinism, male, voluminous amount, 1-1102
Chemotherapy, See Antibiotics
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Talk about cross and "crossed" cultures, a female typesetter strikes back at the traditional male bastion of Ob-Gyn. Think she kept her job ?
As pointed out by my daughter below, this has been documented in Kahn's Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth (Univ. Illinois Press, 1995), pp. 201-202.
http://books.google.com/books?id=oGBBCjfsA-MC&pg=PA202&lpg=PA202&dq=pritchard+mcdonald+obstetrics+index+male+chauvinism&source=bl&ots=5IiGDlpZmj&sig=0vk6ZUI5Yp_xbHwkWmZYkSbY77o&hl=en&ei=OY4kTfzlLYWclgeA6fGcAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
ReplyDeleteThe female "typesetter" anthropologists think responsible was actually Signe Pritchard...Pritchard's wife! the book was dedicated to her! look at the link above...page 202 of Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth