Bittel, Carla Jean
자료유형 | 학위논문 |
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개인저자 | Bittel, Carla Jean. |
단체저자명 | Cornell University. |
서명/저자사항 | The science of women's rights: :The medical and political worlds of Mary Putnam Jacobi. |
형태사항 | xi, 344 p ;22 cm. |
기본자료 저록 | Dissertation Abstracts International,63-12A. |
ISBN | 0493960813 |
학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, Jan.,2003. |
일반주기 | Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-12, Section: A, page: 4438. Chair: Joan Jacobs Brumberg. |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical reference |
요약 | This cultural biography of Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906) illustrates how American women came to embrace scientific principles in the post-Civil War period. Historians of women and medicine have focused on how nineteenth-century men of medicine worked against the interests of women by pathologizing the female body. This study offers an alternative perspective by examining how Mary Putnam Jacobi adopted science as a cultural authority and enrolled medicine in the campaign for women's rights. Ultimately, this project provides a gendered perspective to the stories of secularization and medicalization in American life, and shows how American women moved from the “cult of true womanhood” in Victorian America to “scientific motherhood” in the early twentieth century. |
요약 | This project is the first scholarly treatment of Jacobi as a starting point for studying the relationship between political activism and the production of medical knowledge by women. Mary Putnam Jacobi was the most influential woman doctor of her time, broadly educated in New York, Philadelphia, and Paris, and widely published in the most recognized American medical journals. Working in New York City for almost thirty years, she supported and put into practice the main tenets of scientific medicine. Jacobi was also an adamant social activist who worked on behalf of women's rights, suffrage, and education. My study ties this activism to her scientific inquiry, showing how Jacobi's social experience, political interests, and philosophical positivism shaped her theories on menstruation, hysteria, and physiology. It also illustrates how she applied science to issues of faith and social equality. Jacobi's life and work make a telling case for the role of gender in debates over “good science” and in the making of scientific medicine in the nineteenth century. |
일반주제명 | History, United States Women's Studies |
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