Books by Ornella Moscucci

This volume focuses on gynaecological cancer to explore the ways in which gender has shaped medical and public health responses to cancer in England. Rooted in gendered perceptions of cancer risk, medical and public health efforts to reduce cancer mortality since 1900 have prominently targeted women's cancers.

Is women's destiny rooted in their biology? This book argues that the definition of femininity as propounded by gynaecological science is a cultural product of a wider, more political context.