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Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Sara L. Crosby Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018 edition
Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Sara L. Crosby
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.
257 pages, 4 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 257 p. 4 illus.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 21, 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9783030071974 |
| Publishers | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Pages | 257 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 331 g |
| Language | German |