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 me

This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities fr

Female Physicians in American Literature traces the woman physician character throughout her varying depictions in 19th-century literature, from her appearance

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, two thousand women physicians formed a significant and lively scientific community in the United States. Many wer