Amanda M. (tapcat16) reviewed on 6/27/2011 + 150 more book reviews

This book set in the early 1900s in Scots Bay, Canada and Boston depicts the historic and current struggles of women to gain rights over our own bodies and lives. Dora Rare is first an apprentice to then the midwife for Scots Bay. She must face violence, death, injustices, and the threat of world war in her struggle to protect not only herself but the women all around her. This book particularly eloquently depicts the injustice of the medical community labeling just anger as an illness through the labeling of the main character as having hysteria. An excellent book and a must-read for women everywhere, as well as men sympathetic to the cause of women's rights.

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