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

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...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Crosby, Sara L. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Subjects:	Literature, Modern-19th century. Literature-Philosophy. History.
ISBN:	9783319964638
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