Looking for secondary sources on treatment of women in hospitals in early 20th century America

by talk2frankgrimes

I'm doing a research project assessing the historical accuracy of the show Boardwalk Empire. One of the themes I will be looking at specifically is the status of women and in Boardwalk Empire there is much focus on a Catholic hospital that has quite backward views on pregnancy, prenatal care, birth control etc. I'm basically looking for some secondary sources, or indeed any primary source material people may have access to on this .

caffarelli

Since it sounds like you're mostly into birth control history, have you seen the published Margaret Sanger papers?