Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt Nineteenth-Century Physician and Woman's Rights Advocate / Myra C. Glenn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glenn, Myra C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's rights--United States--History--19th century.

Women's rights.

Women physicians--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Biography.

Women physicians.

Hunt, Harriot Kezia, 1805-1875.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 230 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The making of a maverick : Harriot Hunt's early years

Forging a medical career

Coping with family tragedy & 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61376-622-X

OCLC:

1080550087