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»Gold Fever« and Women : Transformations in Lives, Health Care and Medicine in the 19th Century American West / Sigrid Schönfelder.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American Culture Studies ; 41Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783839466568
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  • 610.82 23//eng/20230227eng
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abstract -- 1 The 19th-Century American West: A Social Laboratory for Multifarious Transformations and Reforms -- Introduction -- 2 Historical Reflections of American Autobiographical Narrative Practice(s) -- Introduction -- 2.1 Women’s Life Writings in the “Forgotten Century” -- 2.2 “Damned mob of scribbling women” -- 2.3 Narrative Spaces of Life Writing -- 2.4 Native American Autobiography: A “Mangled” Genre -- 3 The Cultural West as a Transformational Place of Many Spaces -- 3.1 Cultural Concepts of Space and Place -- 3.2 “Manifest Destiny Aesthetics” – Cultural (Mis)representations of the West -- 3.3 Bringing “Progress” to the West -- 3.4 Go West, Young Woman! -- 3.5 Cultural Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Women’s “Proper Place” -- 3.6 The Transformation of Domestic Boundaries and Nineteenth-Century Medicine -- 4 Women’s Transformative Counter-Narratives to the Ontological History of the 19th Century American West -- 4.1 Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte: “The First Woman Physician Among Her People” -- 4.2 Patty Bartlett Sessions: The Role of Mormon Women and Medicine in Settling Salt Lake, Utah -- 4.3 Life of Dr. Bethenia Owens-Adair: “Mother of [Oregon’s] Sterilization Bill” -- 5 Blazing their Paths into the Future -- Introduction -- Works Cited
Summary: Throughout its history, the American West symbolized a place of hope and new beginnings, where anything was possible, especially for men. However, the history written until the 1970s and 1980s excluded women. Sigrid Schönfelder illustrates how the American West served as a catalytic gold mine for many transformations for women. It draws on the life narratives of three healthcare providers whose devotion within the social reform movements of the long nineteenth century contributed significantly to shaping healthcare policies. Their stories show how women contributed to place-making in the West and served as role models for other women to enter the field of medicine.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abstract -- 1 The 19th-Century American West: A Social Laboratory for Multifarious Transformations and Reforms -- Introduction -- 2 Historical Reflections of American Autobiographical Narrative Practice(s) -- Introduction -- 2.1 Women’s Life Writings in the “Forgotten Century” -- 2.2 “Damned mob of scribbling women” -- 2.3 Narrative Spaces of Life Writing -- 2.4 Native American Autobiography: A “Mangled” Genre -- 3 The Cultural West as a Transformational Place of Many Spaces -- 3.1 Cultural Concepts of Space and Place -- 3.2 “Manifest Destiny Aesthetics” – Cultural (Mis)representations of the West -- 3.3 Bringing “Progress” to the West -- 3.4 Go West, Young Woman! -- 3.5 Cultural Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Women’s “Proper Place” -- 3.6 The Transformation of Domestic Boundaries and Nineteenth-Century Medicine -- 4 Women’s Transformative Counter-Narratives to the Ontological History of the 19th Century American West -- 4.1 Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte: “The First Woman Physician Among Her People” -- 4.2 Patty Bartlett Sessions: The Role of Mormon Women and Medicine in Settling Salt Lake, Utah -- 4.3 Life of Dr. Bethenia Owens-Adair: “Mother of [Oregon’s] Sterilization Bill” -- 5 Blazing their Paths into the Future -- Introduction -- Works Cited

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Throughout its history, the American West symbolized a place of hope and new beginnings, where anything was possible, especially for men. However, the history written until the 1970s and 1980s excluded women. Sigrid Schönfelder illustrates how the American West served as a catalytic gold mine for many transformations for women. It draws on the life narratives of three healthcare providers whose devotion within the social reform movements of the long nineteenth century contributed significantly to shaping healthcare policies. Their stories show how women contributed to place-making in the West and served as role models for other women to enter the field of medicine.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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