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"How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood--and the brilliant doctor who defied them After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to universities like Harvard, women built their own first-rate medical schools and hospitals. Their success spurred a chilling backlash from elite, white male physicians who were obsessed with eugenics and the propagation of the white race. Distorting Darwin's evolution theory, these haughty physicians proclaimed in bestselling books that women should never be allowed to attend college or enter a profession because their menstrual cycles made them perpetually sick. Motherhood was their constitution and duty. Into the midst of this turmoil marched tiny, dynamic Mary Putnam Jacobi, daughter of New York publisher George Palmer Putnam and the first woman to be accepted into the world-renowned Sorbonne medical school in Paris. As one of the best-educated doctors in the world, she returned to New York for the fight of her life. Aided by other prominent women physicians and suffragists, Jacobi conducted the first-ever data-backed, scientific research on women's reproductive biology. The results of her studies shook the foundations of medical science and higher education. Full of larger than life characters and cinematically written, The Cure for Women documents the birth of a sexist science still haunting us today as the fight for control of women's bodies and lives continues"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Prologue: A desire to heal
• Part One: Beginning. A moral imperative
• A tale of two hospitals
• Awakening
• Setbacks
• Revolutionary
• Part Two: Backlash. A mistaken ally
• Closed energy system
• The science of love
• Battle lines are drawn
• Counterattack
• Fighting back with science
• God's gift to women
• Part Three: Breakthrough. Success, but at what cost?
• The agony of her mind
• Organizing to win
• Combat zones
• A partership of women
• Epilogue: The last victory
• Acknowledgments

• Notes
• Index.

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Author/Creator:

Reeder, Lydia , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The cure for women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the challenge to Victorian medicine that changed women's lives forever [by Reeder, L.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Cure for women [by Reeder, L.] (First edition; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024 — ISBN 9781250284464; OCLC Number 1474991259)

Subjects:

Jacobi, Mary Putnam, 1842-1906

Women — Health and hygiene — United States — History — 19th century

Women's rights — United States — History — 19th century

Sex differences — History — 19th century

Women physicians — United States — Biography

Women physicians — New York (State) — Biography

Medical education — United States — History — 19th century

Women in medicine — History — 19th century

Genres:

Biographies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

320 pages : portrait ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

R692.J33 R44 2024

ISBNs:

9781250284457 (hardcover)
1250284457 (hardcover)
9781250284464 (electronic book) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024025619

OCLC Numbers:

1414164721