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Elizabeth Blackwell's autobiographic history of the brave
accomplishments of those who made the USA's medical profession
accessible to women is illuminating and uplifting. Writing toward
the end of the 19th century, Blackwell strikes a dignified and
resolute tone throughout this memoir. Prior to Victorian times,
women had only a diminished role in the medical profession, which -
like most other professional trades at the time - was closed to
female participation. Elizabeth Blackwell however was adamant that
she could serve as a medic; her persistence led her to become the
first woman ever taught in medical school, studying in the USA.
Blackwell discusses famous figures in English medicine, such as
Florence Nightingale, as well as several more obscure - but
nevertheless important and influential - contributors to the
progress of women in the medical profession. Towards the end of the
book, set in 1858, Elizabeth Blackwell revisits England to behold
the hospitals and medical community of that nation.
The most dramatic growth of Christianity in the late twentieth
century has occurred in Africa, where Catholic missions have played
major roles. But these missions did more than simply convert
Africans. Catholic sisters became heavily involved in the Church's
health services and eventually in relief and social justice
efforts. In Into Africa, Barbra Mann Wall offers a transnational
history that reveals how Catholic medical and nursing sisters
established relationships between local and international groups,
sparking an exchange of ideas that crossed national, religious,
gender, and political boundaries. Both a nurse and a historian,
Wall explores this intersection of religion, medicine, gender,
race, and politics in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the years
following World War II, a period when European colonial rule was
ending and Africans were building new governments, health care
institutions, and education systems. She focuses specifically on
hospitals, clinics, and schools of nursing in Ghana and Uganda run
by the Medical Mission Sisters of Philadelphia; in Nigeria and
Uganda by the Irish Medical Missionaries of Mary; in Tanzania by
the Maryknoll Sisters of New York; and in Nigeria by a local
Nigerian congregation. Wall shows how, although initially somewhat
ethnocentric, the sisters gradually developed a deeper
understanding of the diverse populations they served. In the
process, their medical and nursing work intersected with critical
social, political, and cultural debates that continue in Africa
today: debates about the role of women in their local societies,
the relationship of women to the nursing and medical professions
and to the Catholic Church, the obligations countries have to
provide care for their citizens, and the role of women in human
rights. A groundbreaking contribution to the study of globalization
and medicine, Into Africa highlights the importance of
transnational partnerships, using the stories of these nuns to
enhance the understanding of medical mission work and global
change.
The first woman in America to own and operate a circus, Agnes
Lake spent thirty years under the Big Top before becoming the wife
of Wild Bill Hickok--a mere five months before he was killed.
Although books abound on the famous lawman, Agnes's life has
remained obscured by circus myth and legend.
Linda A. Fisher and Carrie Bowers have written the first
biography of this colorful but little-known circus performer. Agnes
originally found fame as a slack-wire walker and horseback rider,
and later as an animal trainer. Her circus career spanned more than
four decades. Following the murder of her first husband, Bill Lake,
she was the sole manager of the "Hippo-Olympiad and Mammoth
Circus." While taking her show to Abilene, she met town marshal
Hickok and five years later she married him. After Hickok's death,
Agnes traveled with P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill Cody, and managed
her daughter Emma Lake's successful equestrian career.
This account of a remarkable life cuts through fictions about
Agnes's life, including her own embellishments, to uncover her true
story. Numerous illustrations, including rare photographs and
circus memorabilia, bring Agnes's world to life.
In Belles and Poets, Julia Nitz analyzes the Civil War diary
writing of eight white women from the U.S. South, focusing
specifically on how they made sense of the world around them
through references to literary texts. Nitz finds that many diarists
incorporated allusions to poems, plays, and novels, especially
works by Shakespeare and the British Romantic poets, in moments of
uncertainty and crisis. While previous studies have overlooked or
neglected such literary allusions in personal writings, regarding
them as mere embellishments or signs of elite social status, Nitz
reveals that these references functioned as codes through which
women diarists contemplated their roles in society and addressed
topics related to slavery, Confederate politics, gender, and
personal identity. Nitz's innovative study of identity construction
and literary intertextuality focuses on diaries written by the
following women: Eliza Frances (Fanny) Andrews of Georgia
(1840-1931), Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut of South Carolina
(1823-1886), Malvina Sara Black Gist of South Carolina (1842-1930),
Sarah Ida Fowler Morgan of Louisiana (1842-1909), Cornelia Peake
McDonald of Virginia (1822-1909), Judith White Brockenbrough
McGuire of Virginia (1813-1897), Sarah Katherine (Kate) Stone of
Louisiana (1841-1907), and Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas of Georgia
(1843-1907). These women's diaries circulated in postwar
commemoration associations, and several saw publication. The public
acclaim they received helped shape the collective memory of the war
and, according to Nitz, further legitimized notions of racial
supremacy and segregation. Comparing and contrasting their own
lives to literary precedents and fictional role models allowed the
diarists to process the privations of war, the loss of family
members, and the looming defeat of the Confederacy. Belles and
Poets establishes the extent to which literature offered a means of
exploring ideas and convictions about class, gender, and racial
hierarchies in the Civil War-era South. Nitz's work shows that
literary allusions in wartime diaries expose the ways in which some
white southern women coped with the war and its potential threats
to their way of life.
Guiding students step-by-step through the research process while
simultaneously introducing a range of debates, challenges and tools
that feminist scholars use, the second edition of this popular
textbook provides a vital resource to those students and
researchers approaching their studies from a feminist perspective.
Interdisciplinary in its approach, the book covers everything from
research design, analysis and presentation, to formulating research
questions, data collection and publishing research. Offering the
most comprehensive and practical guide to the subject available,
the text is now also fully updated to take account of recent
developments in the field, including participatory action research,
new technologies and methods for working with big data and social
media. Doing Feminist Research is required reading for
undergraduate and postgraduate courses taking a feminist approach
to social science methodology, research design and methods. It is
the ideal guide for all students and scholars carrying out feminist
research, whether in the fields of international relations,
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this Edition: - New discussions of contemporary research methods,
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