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Women Physicians and Professional Ethos in Nineteenth-Century America (Studies in Rhetoric and Feminisms)
Carolyn Skinner
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Paperback. Series: Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; JFSJ1; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
Women physicians in nineteenth-century America faced a unique challenge in gaining acceptance to the medical field as it began its transformation into a professional institution. The profession had begun to increasingly insist on masculine traits as signs of competency. Not only were these traits inaccessible to women according to nineteenth-century gender ideology, but showing competence as a medical professional was not enough. Whether women could or should be physicians hinged mostly on maintaining their femininity while displaying the newly established standard traits of successful practitioners of medicine.
Women Physicians and Professional Ethos provides a unique example of how women ... Read more
Women physicians in nineteenth-century America faced a unique challenge in gaining acceptance to the medical field as it began its transformation into a professional institution. The profession had begun to increasingly insist on masculine traits as signs of competency. Not only were these traits inaccessible to women according to nineteenth-century gender ideology, but showing competence as a medical professional was not enough. Whether women could or should be physicians hinged mostly on maintaining their femininity while displaying the newly established standard traits of successful practitioners of medicine.
Women Physicians and Professional Ethos provides a unique example of how women ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809333004
SKU
V9780809333004
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About Carolyn Skinner
Carolyn Skinner is an associate professor of English at the Ohio State University at Mansfield. She has published essays in Writing Centre Journal, Technical Communication Quarterly, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and Rhetoric Review. She is one of the recipients of the 2006 International Writing Centres Association award for outstanding scholarship in an article.
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