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Medical Women and Victorian Fiction (review)
Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol.15(3), pp.517-521
09/2006
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Abstract
Swenson sees the emergence of this genre not only as reflective of the growing discomfort of the British public with women's encroachment into medical science but also as part of a wider crisis in masculine authority as feminists began to campaign for higher education, entry to the professions, and the legislative reform of marriage.\n As Swenson demonstrates, the possibility of an egalitarian marriage in this novel is informed by the notions of loyalty and love that Mona experienced with other women. While the subject of the woman medic in contemporary popular culture would doubtlessly warrant a book (and maybe several books), some reference to the continuities that might be traced or the ways in which the impact of second-wave feminism or, indeed, third-wave feminism is being played out in medical dramas such as Grey's Anatomy (the tide of this program itself could warrant a study of the body of the female surgeon) might have offered a more interesting conclusion to a text.
Details
- Title
- Medical Women and Victorian Fiction (review)
- Creators
- Mary Spongberg - Macquarie University
- Publication Details
- Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol.15(3), pp.517-521
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press * Journals Division
- Identifiers
- 991012979168202368
- Copyright
- Copyright © University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press)
- Academic Unit
- Office of Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Review