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

Sigrid Schönfelder

Published by transcript Verlag 2023

»Gold Fever« and Women

Transformations in Lives, Health Care and Medicine in the 19th Century American West

Sigrid Schönfelder

Volume 41 in the series American Culture Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839466568

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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.

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Sigrid Schönfelder completed her studies at the Technische Universität Dresden, where she majored in North American Studies, focusing on concepts of identity in Native American autobiographies. Her research on the transformation of nineteenth-century women's lives and medicine in the American West at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the Universität Passau, Germany, culminated in her Ph.D. thesis.

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Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Abstract Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
1 The 19th-Century American West: A Social Laboratory for Multifarious Transformations and Reforms
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2 Historical Reflections of American Autobiographical Narrative Practice(s)
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2.1 Women’s Life Writings in the “Forgotten Century” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
2.2 “Damned mob of scribbling women” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
2.3 Narrative Spaces of Life Writing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
2.4 Native American Autobiography: A “Mangled” Genre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
3 The Cultural West as a Transformational Place of Many Spaces
3.1 Cultural Concepts of Space and Place Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
3.2 “Manifest Destiny Aesthetics” – Cultural (Mis)representations of the West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
3.3 Bringing “Progress” to the West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
3.4 Go West, Young Woman! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
3.5 Cultural Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Women’s “Proper Place” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
3.6 The Transformation of Domestic Boundaries and Nineteenth-Century Medicine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
4 Women’s Transformative Counter-Narratives to the Ontological History of the 19^th Century American West
4.1 Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte: “The First Woman Physician Among Her People” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
4.2 Patty Bartlett Sessions: The Role of Mormon Women and Medicine in Settling Salt Lake, Utah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
4.3 Life of Dr. Bethenia Owens-Adair: “Mother of [Oregon’s] Sterilization Bill” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
5 Blazing their Paths into the Future
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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Keywords: Medicine; Healthcare; Nineteenth Century; American West; America; Gender; Cultural History; American History; Gender Studies; History of Medicine; Cultural Studies

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Published: February 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783839466568