Abstract
Sharp’s is the first book of midwivery written by an English woman. It draws on her thirty-year experience as a midwife and eschews Latin anatomical language. Her efforts to legitimate English midwives and challenge male-dominated medical knowledge (and par?ticularly men’s disgust concerning female genitalia) can, as in the passage included here, result in a tendency to displace onto foreign women physical anomalies and non-normative sexual behaviors.
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