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Examines how women writers of medical fiction rewrite cultural narratives of the female body against censorship under the Comstock Laws Offers an original contribution to the study of nineteenth-century American literature that recovers and examines lesser-known texts by canonical nineteenth-century women writersContributes to the emerging fields of medical fiction, medicine and literature, and medical humanities by examining how one group of women writers intervenes in discourses of reproductiv