XIXTH CENTURY PIONEER MEDICAL WOMEN THROUGH THEIR WRITINGS
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https://doi.org/10.12795/RICL2021.i24.03Keywords:
Pioneer medical women; women medical writers; historiography of medical women and midwives; XXth century scientific-medical discourseAbstract
During the last third of the XIXth century, pioneer female physicians, in spite of the hard opposition to women’s access to higher education and professional practice, were able to transmit their knowledge and opinions, through lectures and publications. They started the historiography of women in medicine and midwifery, produced works to promote popular knowledge about health care, refuted the misogynistic discourse on women’s bodies and sexuality and contributed to the construction of scientific knowledge. This paper, from the sphere of feminist studies, aims to provide information about some of their works.
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