Women Healers and Physicians : Climbing a Long Hill

by Furst, Lilian R.

• ISBN13: 9780813120119
• ISBN10: 081312011X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

Summary

Women traditionally have been expected to tend to the sick as part of their domestic duties, yet throughout history they have faced an uphill struggle to be accepted as healers outside of the household.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(12)
PART I: BETWEEN MAGIC AND MEDICINE	13	(118)
1. Medieval German Women and the Power of Healing	13	(30)
DEBRA L. STOUDT
2. Between Magic and Medicine: Medieval Images of the Woman Healer	43	(21)
NANCY P NENNO
3. Women, Medicine, and the Law in Baccaccio's Decameron	64	(15)
ESTHER ZAGO
4. Women Healers and the Power to Disease in Late Medieval Spain	79	(14)
MICHAEL SOLOMON
5. Where Have You Gone, Margaret Kennix? Seeking the Tradition of Healing Women in English Renaissance Drama	93	(21)
WILLIAM KERWIN
6. The Blues, Healing, and Cultural Representation in Contemporary African-American Women's Literature	114	(17)
GUNNILA T. KESTER
PART 2: THE EMERGENCE OF PROFESSIONALISM	131	(128)
7. Women Doctors in Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire	131	(20)
HOLT T. PARKER
8. They Met in Zurich: Nineteenth-Century German and Russian Women Physicians	151	(27)
PAULETTE MEYER
9. The Making of a Woman Surgeon: How Mary Dixon Jones Made a Name for Herself in Nineteenth-Century Gynecology	178	(20)
REGINA MORANTZ-SANCHEZ
10. Separatist Health: Changing Meanings of Women's Hospitals in Australia and England, c. 1870-1920	198	(23)
ALISON BASHFORD
11. Halfway Up the Hill: Doctresses in Late Nineteenth-Century American Fiction	221	(18)
LILIAN R. FURST
12. "Leaving the Private House": Women Doctors in Virginia Woolf's Life and Art	239	(20)
ELSA NETTELS
Notes on Contributors	259	(3)
Index	262