Fictional women physicians in the nineteenth century: The struggle for self-identity

Elder, Nancy C.; Schwarzer, Andrew

doi:10.1007/bf02276613

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The Literary Representation of Women Doctors in the United States, 1860–1920

Wegener

2007

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Literary representations of women doctors in the United States between 1860 and 1920 -the period in which women first entered the American medical profession -have become the focus of extensive critical study over the past thirty years. Much as the initial rise of American women doctors has recently attracted the attention of historians, so many of the images of women physicians that circulated in the United States during the same period have come to be examined by literary scholars and critics. This ongoing scholarly consideration of literary representations of American women as physicians has evolved along a path that corresponds to important phases in literary studies generally since the 1970s: the emergence of second-wave feminist criticism, a return to historically oriented modes of critical analysis, and the growth of interdisciplinary approaches, among other influential developments. Many such approaches to early imaginative representations of American women doctors have been flawed, however, in their use either of documentary evidence or of analytical paradigms drawn from the history of medicine, the history of science, and related fields. Moreover, critical discussion continues to focus primarily on a small fraction of the number of literary images of women doctors that proliferated in the United States between 1860 and 1920 -further illustrating how far this area of inquiry has yet to develop and expand in order to do justice to such a pervasive, conspicuous phenomenon in American literary history.

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The Literary Representation of Women Doctors in the United States, 1860–1920

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2007

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Disaffected from the Culture of Sentiment

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The condition of being subjected to both natu ral (in the scientific and lay sense) conditions and to others' power affectable "I": The scientific construction of non-European minds -Denise Ferreira da Silva, Toward a Global Idea of Race By disaffection, I emphasize not only emotional distance, alienation, antipathy, and isolation but also to center this word's other connotation of disloyalty to regimes of power.-Martin F. Manalansan IV, "Servicing the World: Flexible Filipinos and the Unsecured Life" I thus am able to conceive of the opacity of the other for me, without reproach for my opacity to him. To feel in solidarity with him or to build with him or to like what he does, it is not necessary for me to grasp him.-Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation white feelings, white tears, white fragility, white women's tears, white men's tears: these phrases circulate within popu lar antiracist social justice discourse galvanized by the Black Lives Matter movement. These phrases articulate frustration with the ongoing manifestations of what scholars have

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Fictional women physicians in the nineteenth century: The struggle for self-identity

Cited by 9 publications

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The Literary Representation of Women Doctors in the United States, 1860–1920

The Literary Representation of Women Doctors in the United States, 1860–1920

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