Women In Medicine In Nineteenth Century American Literature

Author : Sara L. Crosby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319964638

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Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Sara L. Crosby Pdf

This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities from political power into a feminist hero used to justify the expansion of their public roles. Sara Crosby locates the origins of this metamorphosis in Uncle Tom’s Cabin where Harriet Beecher Stowe applied an alternative medical discourse to revise the poisonous Cassy into a doctor. The newly “medicalized” poisoner then served as a focal point for two competing narratives that envisioned the American nation as a multi-racial, egalitarian democracy or as a white and male supremacist ethno-state. Crosby tracks this battle from the heroic healers created by Stowe, Mary Webb, Oscar Micheaux, and Louisia May Alcott to the even more monstrous poisoners or “vampires” imagined by E. D. E. N. Southworth, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Theda Bara, Thomas Dixon, Jr., and D. W. Griffith.

Author : Carla Bittel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469606446

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Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America by Carla Bittel Pdf

In the late nineteenth century, as Americans debated the "woman question," a battle over the meaning of biology arose in the medical profession. Some medical men claimed that women were naturally weak, that education would make them physically ill, and that women physicians endangered the profession. Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906), a physician from New York, worked to prove them wrong and argued that social restrictions, not biology, threatened female health. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America is the first full-length biography of Mary Putnam Jacobi, the most significant woman physician of her era and an outspoken advocate for women's rights. Jacobi rose to national prominence in the 1870s and went on to practice medicine, teach, and conduct research for over three decades. She campaigned for co-education, professional opportunities, labor reform, and suffrage--the most important women's rights issues of her day. Downplaying gender differences, she used the laboratory to prove that women were biologically capable of working, learning, and voting. Science, she believed, held the key to promoting and producing gender equality. Carla Bittel's biography of Jacobi offers a piercing view of the role of science in nineteenth-century women's rights movements and provides historical perspective on continuing debates about gender and science today.

Author : Margaret Jay Jessee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000554441

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Female Physicians in American Literature by Margaret Jay Jessee Pdf

Female Physicians in American Literature traces the woman physician character throughout her varying depictions in 19th-century literature, from her appearance in sensational fiction as an evil abortionist to her more well-known idyllic, feminine presence in novels of realism and regionalism. "Murderess," "hag," "She-Devil," "the instrument of the very vilest crime known in the annals of hell"—these are just a few descriptions of women abortionists in popular 19th-century sensational fiction. In novels of regionalism, however, she is often depicted as moral, feminine, and self-sacrificing. This dichotomy, Jessee argues, reveals two opposing literary approaches to registering the national fears of all that both women and abortion evoke: the terrifying threats to white, masculine, Anglo-American male supremacy.

Author : Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead
Publisher : Haddam, Conn. : The Haddam Press
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015006015948

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A History of Women in Medicine by Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead Pdf

Author : Susan Wells
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780299171735

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Out of the Dead House by Susan Wells Pdf

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, two thousand women physicians formed a significant and lively scientific community in the United States. Many were active writers; they participated in the development of medical record-keeping and research, and they wrote self-help books, social and political essays, fiction, and poetry. Out of the Dead House rediscovers the contributions these women made to the developing practice of medicine and to a community of women in science. Susan Wells combines studies of medical genres, such as the patient history or the diagnostic conversation, with discussions of individual writers. The women she discusses include Ann Preston, the first woman dean of a medical college; Hannah Longshore, a successful practitioner who combined conventional and homeopathic medicine; Rebecca Crumpler, the first African American woman physician to publish a medical book; and Mary Putnam Jacobi, writer of more than 180 medical articles and several important books. Wells shows how these women learned to write, what they wrote, and how these texts were read. Out of the Dead House also documents the ways that women doctors influenced medical discourse during the formation of the modern profession. They invented forms and strategies for medical research and writing, including methods of using survey information, taking patient histories, and telling case histories. Out of the Dead House adds a critical episode to the developing story of women as producers and critics of culture, including scientific culture.

Author : Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0331487438

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A History of Women in Medicine by Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead Pdf

Excerpt from A History of Women in Medicine: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century And we are faced with more than documentary mistakes. With iwoi'nen far more than with men tradition has been prone to garble and distort the original data. But this very fact increases the reliability of those stories of the work of medical women which have persisted down the ages, surviving jealousy, calumny, carelessness and indifference. If _any traditions of medical women survived all these handicaps, it is all the more probable that they were based on solid and substantial fact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Regina Morantz-Sanchez
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780807876084

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Sympathy and Science by Regina Morantz-Sanchez Pdf

When first published in 1985, Sympathy and Science was hailed as a groundbreaking study of women in medicine. It remains the most comprehensive history of American women physicians available. Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine in early America; recounts their successful struggles in the nineteenth century to enter medical schools and found their own institutions and organizations; and follows female physicians into the twentieth century, exploring their efforts to sustain significant and rewarding professional lives without sacrificing the other privileges and opportunities of womanhood. In a new preface, the author surveys recent scholarship and comments on the changing world of women in medicine over the past two decades. Despite extraordinary advances, she concludes, women physicians continue to grapple with many of the issues that troubled their predecessors.

Author : Cecil Berit Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822000712315

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The Woman Physician in Late Nineteenth Century American Literature by Cecil Berit Marshall Pdf

Author : Andrew Mangham,Greta Depledge
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846318528

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The Female Body in Medicine and Literature by Andrew Mangham,Greta Depledge Pdf

Drawing on a range of texts from the seventeenth century to the present, The Female Body in Medicine and Literature explores accounts of motherhood, fertility, and clinical procedures for what they have to tell us about the development of women's medicine. The essays here offer nuanced historical analyses of subjects that have received little critical attention, including the relationship between gynecology and psychology and the influence of popular art forms on so-called women's science prior to the twenty-first century. Taken together, these essays offer a wealth of insight into the medical treatment of women and will appeal to scholars in gender studies, literature, and the history of medicine.

Author : Janice P. Nimura
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780393635553

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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura Pdf

New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography "Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor." —Stacy Schiff Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician. Exploring the sisters’ allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women’s rights—or with each other. From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. As Elizabeth herself predicted, "a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now."

Author : Judith Walzer Leavitt
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Women
ISBN : 0299159647

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Women and Health in America by Judith Walzer Leavitt Pdf

Organised chronologically and then by topic, this volume covers studies of women and health in the colonial and revolutionary periods through the Civil War. The remainder of the book focuses on the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Author : Ana Stevenson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030244675

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The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements by Ana Stevenson Pdf

This book is the first to develop a history of the analogy between woman and slave, charting its changing meanings and enduring implications across the social movements of the long nineteenth century. Looking beyond its foundations in the antislavery and women’s rights movements, this book examines the influence of the woman-slave analogy in popular culture along with its use across the dress reform, labor, suffrage, free love, racial uplift, and anti-vice movements. At once provocative and commonplace, the woman-slave analogy was used to exceptionally varied ends in the era of chattel slavery and slave emancipation. Yet, as this book reveals, a more diverse assembly of reformers both accepted and embraced a woman-as-slave worldview than has previously been appreciated. One of the most significant yet controversial rhetorical strategies in the history of feminism, the legacy of the woman-slave analogy continues to underpin the debates that shape feminist theory today.

Author : Monika Elbert
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817357795

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Separate Spheres No More by Monika Elbert Pdf

Examines the intersection of male and female spheres in American literature Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of classroom teaching. While some of the essays pair up female and male authors who write in a similar style or with similar concerns, others address social issues shared by both men and women, including class tensions, economic problems, and the Civil War experience. Rather than privileging particular genres or certain well-known writers, the contributors examine writings ranging from novels and poetry to autobiography, utopian fiction, and essays. And they consider familiar figures like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, and Ralph Waldo Emerson alongside such lesser-known writers as Melusina Fay Peirce, Susie King Taylor, and Mary Gove Nichols. Each essay revises the binary notions that have been ascribed to males and females, such as public and private, rational and intuitive, political and domestic, violent and passive. Although they do not deny the existence of separate spheres, the contributors show the boundary between them to be much more blurred than has been assumed until now.

Author : Sharon M. Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Physicians
ISBN : 0754658651

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A Biographical Dictionary of Women Physicians Nineteenth- Century America by Sharon M. Harris Pdf

Containing over 7000 entries, this book captures the diversity of the individual women who sought to become physicians, their wide range of medical interests, and their accomplishments in the field, pertinent medical and autobiographical writings, as well as their impact on the profession and on American culture.

Author : Kristine Swenson
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826264312

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Medical Women and Victorian Fiction by Kristine Swenson Pdf

In Medical Women and Victorian Fiction, Kristine Swenson explores the cultural intersections of fiction, feminism, and medicine during the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain and her colonies by looking at the complex and reciprocal relationship between women and medicine in Victorian culture. Her examination centers around two distinct though related figures: the Nightingale nurse and the New Woman doctor. The medical women in the fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell (Ruth), Wilkie Collins (The Woman in White), Dr. Margaret Todd (Mona McLean, Medical Student), Hilda Gregg (Peace with Honour), and others are analyzed in relation to nonfictional discussions of nurses and women doctors in medical publications, nursing tracts, feminist histories, and newspapers. Victorian anxieties over sexuality, disease, and moral corruption came together most persistently around the figure of a prostitute. However, Swenson takes as her focus for this volume an opposing figure, the medical woman, whom Victorians deployed to combat these social ills. As symbols of traditional female morality informed and transformed by the new social and medical sciences, representations of medical women influenced public debate surrounding women's education and employment, the Contagious Diseases Acts, and the health of the empire. At the same time, the presence of these educated, independent women, who received payment for performing tasks traditionally assigned to domestic women or servants, inevitably altered the meaning of womanhood and the positions of other women in Victorian culture. Swenson challenges more conventional histories of the rise of the actual nurse and the woman doctor by treating as equally important the development of cultural representations of these figures.