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Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey
Monument to ‘Mothers of Gynecology’ unveiled in Montgomery
19th century Montgomery physician J. Marion Sims is often credited as the father of modern gynecology for developing new tools and techniques for women’s health that are still used today.
Often overlooked are the enslaved Black women he experimented on -- without consent or anesthesia -- to make those advancements.
A new monument unveiled Friday in Montgomery aims to tell the other side of the Sims story by honoring the “Mothers of Gynecology,” -- Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey, three of eleven enslaved women who were the unwilling subjects of Sims’ experiments in the 1840s.
The statues stand almost 15 feet high and were welded together by Montgomery artist and activist Michelle Browder. They were unveiled Friday afternoon at a ceremony at the More Up Campus on Mildred Street.
“The endeavor is to change the narrative as it relates to the history and how it’s portrayed regarding Sims and the women that were used as experiments,” Browder said Sunday. “They’re not mentioned in any of the iconography or the information, the markers.”
https://www.al.com/news/2021/09/monument-to-mothers-of-gynecology-unveiled-in-montgomery.html
19th century Montgomery physician J. Marion Sims is often credited as the father of modern gynecology for developing new tools and techniques for women’s health that are still used today.
Often overlooked are the enslaved Black women he experimented on -- without consent or anesthesia -- to make those advancements.
A new monument unveiled Friday in Montgomery aims to tell the other side of the Sims story by honoring the “Mothers of Gynecology,” -- Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey, three of eleven enslaved women who were the unwilling subjects of Sims’ experiments in the 1840s.
The statues stand almost 15 feet high and were welded together by Montgomery artist and activist Michelle Browder. They were unveiled Friday afternoon at a ceremony at the More Up Campus on Mildred Street.
“The endeavor is to change the narrative as it relates to the history and how it’s portrayed regarding Sims and the women that were used as experiments,” Browder said Sunday. “They’re not mentioned in any of the iconography or the information, the markers.”
https://www.al.com/news/2021/09/monument-to-mothers-of-gynecology-unveiled-in-montgomery.html
