{"product_id":"dr-harriot-kezia-hunt-nineteenth-century-physician-and-womans-rights-advocate-paperback","title":"Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt: Nineteenth-Century Physician and Woman's Rights Advocate - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMyra C. Glenn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarriot 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMyra C. Glenn is professor of American history at Elmira College and author of \u003ci\u003eJack Tar's Story: The Autobiographies and Memoirs of Sailors in Antebellum America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 26, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751558578464,"sku":"9781625343765","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4f6a21d5268625bb03c94d26b0ba2ace.webp?v=1779975822","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/dr-harriot-kezia-hunt-nineteenth-century-physician-and-womans-rights-advocate-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}