Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: restoring the balance?
  • The professionalism of Sarah Dolley, M.D.
  • Gendered practices: late Victorian medicine in the woman's sphere
  • Maternalist medicine: women physicians in the Progressive Era
  • Redefining the margins: women physicians and American hospitals, 1900-1939
  • Getting organized: the Medical Women's National Association and World War I
  • New directions: the eclipse of maternalist medicine
  • Resisting the "Feminine Mystique," 1938-1968
  • Medicine and the new women's movement
  • Conclusion: reconciling equality an difference.