Scholarship in Victorian Women and Medicine
An Overview
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12880998 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristine Swenson (Missouri University of Science and Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 461-472 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lic3.12066 |
| OpenAlex | W1712410663 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
Since the mid‐1980s, scholars in the history of medicine, social history, women's studies, rhetoric, and literary/cultural studies have all recognized that women and medicine came together in particularly interesting ways in the nineteenth century. Between 1985 and 1990, feminists from across the disciplines drew upon a disparate array of more traditional scholarship to produce books that laid the groundwork for studies on Victorian women and medicine, books whose claims are still being tested and spun out in new scholarship. But although scholars in these various fields have borrowed liberally from one another's work, their critical assumptions and methodologies are often quite different. This essay provides an overview of the scholarship in Victorian women and medicine over the past several decades and suggests how the best recent work in the field attempts to achieve true interdisciplinarity
Art · Feminism · Field (mathematics · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Rhetoric · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Victorian Era · Gender Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy
Making Sex
Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels
Violent Women and Sensation Fiction
Race and the Education of Desire
Uneven Developments
The Enigma of Arrival
Hospital with a Heart
Images of the nurse in fiction and popular culture
The image of the nurse on international postage stamps, 1920-1970
The Traffic in Victorian Bodies
To the Ends of the Earth
Sexual Science
Science Has No Sex
Sympathy and Science
Conduct Unbecoming a Woman
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
The Fashionable Diseases
Self-Writing, Literary Traditions, and Post-Emancipation Identity
Florence Nightingale's Feminist Complaint
Women's Voices in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |