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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• XINE YAO

Titel

THE QUEER FRIGIDITY OF PROFESSIONALISM: White Women Doctors, the Struggle for Rights, and the Marriage Plot

Ist Teil von

• Disaffected, 2021, p.107

Ort / Verlag

Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• IN 1847—a few years before Harvard Medical College ejected its first Black students, Martin R. Delany among them—Harriot Hunt became the first woman to apply to the medical school. Dean Oliver Wendell Holmes asked her to withdraw her application. The practicing healer made another attempt in 1849 that would also fail. This convergence did not go unnoticed. Mary Putnam Jacobi, herself a leader among the first generation of women doctors, writes, But, on the eve of success, Miss Hunt’s cause was shipwrecked, by collision and entanglement with that of another [group] of the unenfranchised to privileges. At the