Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-332) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: restoring the balance? -- The professionalism of Sarah Dolley, M.D. -- Gendered practices: late Victorian medicine in the woman's sphere -- Maternalist medicine: women physicians in the Progressive Era -- Redefining the margins: women physicians and American hospitals, 1900-1939 -- Getting organized: the Medical Women's National Association and World War I -- New directions: the eclipse of maternalist medicine -- Resisting the "Feminine Mystique," 1938-1968 -- Medicine and the new women's movement -- Conclusion: reconciling equality an difference.
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