Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Crosby, Sara L. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-19th century.; Literature-Philosophy.; History.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Literary Theory.; History of Science.

This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities from political power into a feminist hero used to justify the expansion of their public roles. Sara Crosby locates the origins of this metamor...