Bloomers, Bodies, and Women Doctors:  Negotiating Gendered Identities in the 19th-Century United States

New England Historical Association
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Room 303 (Hilton Atlanta, Third Floor)
Chair:
Kristen Anne Petersen, MCPHS University
Papers:
Harriot Kezia Hunt: Battling Harvard Medical School and Campaigning for Women’s Rights in Antebellum America
Myra Glenn, Elmira College
The Bloomer Campaign: Dress Reform and Citizenship in an Emerging Gender Conciousness
Patricia Farless, University of Central Florida
“There Is a Sex of Brain”: Reading Minds and Bodies in the Early American Republic
Rachel Walker, University of Maryland at College Park
Comment:
Kristen Anne Petersen, MCPHS University
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