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

• Autore: Schönfelder Sigrid <p>Sigrid Schönfelder, Universität Passau, Deutschland </p>
• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 pages)
• Disciplina: 605
• Soggetto topico: Women; Medicine; Healthcare; Nineteenth Century; American West; America; Gender; Cultural History; American History; Gender Studies; History of Medicine; Cultural Studies
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abstract -- 1 The 19th-Century American West: A Social Laboratory for Multifarious Transformations and Reforms -- 2 Historical Reflections of American Autobiographical Narrative Practice(s) -- 2.1 Women's Life Writings in the "Forgotten Century" -- 2.2 "Damned mob of scribbling women" -- 2.3 Narrative Spaces of Life Writing -- 2.3.1 Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Autobiographical Epistemologies -- 2.3.2 The West and "I": A Complex Stage -- 2.4 Native American Autobiography: A "Mangled" Genre -- 2.4.1 Written on the Wind: Literary Tradition (Oral) and Authorship (Identity) -- 2.4.2 Life Writings in "The Red Woman's America" -- 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! -- 3.4.1 The Trails - On the Tracks of the Elephant -- 3.4.2 Granny Remedies -- 3.5 Cultural Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Women's "Proper Place" -- 3.5.1 Apple Pie, Sex, and The Cult of True Womanhood -- 3.5.2 "Stepping Out of Place"-Expanding the Domestic Sphere -- 3.6 The Transformation of Domestic Boundaries and Nineteenth-Century Medicine -- 3.6.1 Lay healers-Midwives, Nurses, and Thomsonians -- 3.6.2 The Professionalization of 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" -- 4.1.1 "From the Tepee to Civilization" -- 4.1.2 Life in the "Good Road", Spirituality, and Iron Eye's Family -- 4.1.3 "If you knew the conditions..." -- 4.1.4 Legacy of the New "Medicine Woman," Cultural Broker, and Progressive Reformer. ; 4.2 Patty Bartlett Sessions: The Role of Mormon Women and Medicine in Settling Salt Lake, Utah -- 4.2.1 "Baptized in a Sessions Bathtub" -- 4.2.2 "Doctor" Patty: Clever Businesswoman and Mother of Mormon Midwifery -- 4.2.3 "A Peculiar People" or "Quintessential American Religion"? -- 4.2.4 Exodus: In Search of the Kingdom of Zion -- 4.2.5 Benevolent Heroines: Establishment of the Female Relief Society -- 4.2.6 "Remember Me" (1795 -1892) -- 4.3 Life of Dr. Bethenia Owens-Adair: "Mother of [Oregon's] Sterilization Bill" -- 4.3.1 Early Life of an Oregon Pioneer "Doctress" -- 4.3.2 The "Organized" New Woman and Maternalist Health Reformers -- 4.3.3 Protestant Social Reformers: WCTU Crusaders on a Mission -- 4.3.4 "End of the Last Chapter" -- 5 Blazing their Paths into the Future -- Works Cited.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.; »Die Autorin [hat] eine gut geschriebene und umfänglich recherchierte Studie vorgelegt, die zu Debatten einlädt.«
• Altri titoli varianti: Schönfelder, »Gold Fever« and Women Transformations in Lives, Health Care and Medicine in the 19th Century American West
• Titolo autorizzato: »Gold Fever« and Women
• ISBN: 9783839466568; 3839466563
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911026035603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American Culture Studies