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Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt : nineteenth-century physician and woman's rights advocate / Myra C. Glenn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 230 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781613766231
  • 9781613766224
Other title:
  • Doctor Harriot Kezia Hunt
  • Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt : 19th century physician and woman's rights advocate
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • R154 .D743 2018
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Contents:
Forging a medical career -- Coping with family tragedy and professional rejection during the 1840s -- Battling Harvard Medical School, becoming a woman's rights activist -- Seeking political power, gender equality, and female friendship -- Forging new connections in the mid-1850s : Hunt's involvement with abolitionists, Western feminists, and female doctors -- Glances and glimpses : Harriot Hunt's "heart history," Jeremiad, and reform manifesto -- Forging ahead while facing war, old age, and other challenges.
Subject: "Harriot Kezia Hunt was a pioneer in a number of ways. The first woman to establish a successful medical practice in the United States, she began seeing patients in Boston in 1835 and promoted a new method of treatment by listening to women's troubles or their "heart histories." Her unsuccessful efforts to attend lectures at Harvard's Medical School galvanized her activism in the woman's rights movement. During the 1850s she played a prominent role in the annual woman's rights conventions and was the first woman in Massachusetts to publicly protest the injustice of taxing propertied women while denying them the franchise. In this first comprehensive, full-length biography of Hunt, Myra C. Glenn shows how this single woman from a working-class Boston home became a successful physician and noted reformer, illuminating the struggle for woman's rights and the fractious and gendered nature of medicine in antebellum America"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

The making of a maverick : Harriot Hunt's early years -- Forging a medical career -- Coping with family tragedy and professional rejection during the 1840s -- Battling Harvard Medical School, becoming a woman's rights activist -- Seeking political power, gender equality, and female friendship -- Forging new connections in the mid-1850s : Hunt's involvement with abolitionists, Western feminists, and female doctors -- Glances and glimpses : Harriot Hunt's "heart history," Jeremiad, and reform manifesto -- Forging ahead while facing war, old age, and other challenges.

"Harriot Kezia Hunt was a pioneer in a number of ways. The first woman to establish a successful medical practice in the United States, she began seeing patients in Boston in 1835 and promoted a new method of treatment by listening to women's troubles or their "heart histories." Her unsuccessful efforts to attend lectures at Harvard's Medical School galvanized her activism in the woman's rights movement. During the 1850s she played a prominent role in the annual woman's rights conventions and was the first woman in Massachusetts to publicly protest the injustice of taxing propertied women while denying them the franchise. In this first comprehensive, full-length biography of Hunt, Myra C. Glenn shows how this single woman from a working-class Boston home became a successful physician and noted reformer, illuminating the struggle for woman's rights and the fractious and gendered nature of medicine in antebellum America"--

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