{"product_id":"female-physicians-in-american-literature-abortion-in-19th-century-literature-and-culture-hardcover","title":"Female Physicians in American Literature: Abortion in 19th-Century Literature and Culture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMargaret Jay Jessee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFemale Physicians in American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e traces the woman physician character throughout her varying depictions in 19th-century literature, from her appearance in sensational fiction as an evil abortionist to her more well-known idyllic, feminine presence in novels of realism and regionalism. \"Murderess,\" \"hag,\" \"She-Devil,\" \"the instrument of the very vilest crime known in the annals of hell\"--these are just a few descriptions of women abortionists in popular 19th-century sensational fiction. In novels of regionalism, however, she is often depicted as moral, feminine, and self-sacrificing. This dichotomy, Jessee argues, reveals two opposing literary approaches to registering the national fears of all that both women and abortion evoke: the terrifying threats to white, masculine, Anglo-American male supremacy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMargaret Jay Jessee\u003c\/strong\u003e, PhD (University of Arizona, 2012) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she is also Director of the Undergraduate Program. She guest edited a special issue of \u003ci\u003eArizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Theory, and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e on medical women in 19th-century American literature and her essay \"'Cutting Up Dead Babies': The Literary Legacy of the Woman Physician as Abortionist\" appears in \u003ci\u003eWomen's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. \u003c\/i\u003eHer other work has appeared in\u003ci\u003e The Journal of Modern Literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, South Atlantic Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand in various essay collections. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 92\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784259436832,"sku":"9780367228439","price":118.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0db03bd2cc184386797ff161f3364746.webp?v=1780602802","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/female-physicians-in-american-literature-abortion-in-19th-century-literature-and-culture-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}