Female Physicians in American Literature: Abortion in 19th-Century Literature and Culture
Female Physicians in American Literature: Abortion in 19th-Century Literature and Culture by Margaret Jay Jessee
English | January 7, 2022 | ISBN: 0367228432 | 92 pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | January 7, 2022 | ISBN: 0367228432 | 92 pages | PDF | 1 MB
Female Physicians in American Literature traces the woman physician character throughout her varying depictions in 19th-century literature, from her appearance in sensational fiction as an evil abortionist to her more well-known idyllic, feminine presence in novels of realism and regionalism. Murderess, hag, She-Devil, the instrument of the very vilest crime known in the annals of hell–these are just a few descriptions of women abortionists in popular 19th-century sensational fiction. In novels of regionalism, however, she is often depicted as moral, feminine, and self-sacrificing. This dichotomy, Jessee argues, reveals two opposing literary approaches to registering the national fears of all that both women and abortion evoke: the terrifying threats to white, masculine, Anglo-American male supremacy.
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