DEIRDRE COOPER OWENS is an associate professor at the University of Connecticut and a former director of the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia. She is the a...view moreDEIRDRE COOPER OWENS is an associate professor at the University of Connecticut and a former director of the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia. She is the author of the prize-winning Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology (UGA, 2017).view less