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  • Chapter 15 - What a Doctor Should Look Like

  • from Part III - New Directions
  • Edited by Jean M. Lutes, Villanova University, Pennsylvania, Jennifer Travis, St John's University, New York
  • Book:
    Gender in American Literature and Culture
    Published online:
    01 April 2021
    Print publication:
    15 April 2021, pp 237-254

  • Summary

    The queer femme disrupts the legibility of queerness and politics since the feminine is scapegoated for its subjugation as false and inferior. This essay explores the cultural genealogy of queer femme invisibility by reading white women physician characters in late nineteenth-century New Woman novels in relation to the science of sexology and feminist dress reform as contrapuntal forces that informed the viability of gender expression. Henry James’s The Bostonians, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Doctor Zay, Sarah Orne Jewett’s A Country Doctor, and William Dean Howells’s Dr. Breen’s Practice present variations on the cultural dichotomy between femme and science framed by the marriage plot. Through the politics of dress the possibility of the queer femme is both acknowledged and erased as a legitimate expression and valid identity. These novels trace an incipient femme sensibility bound to whiteness that disrupts assumptions about the coherence of representation required for viability of minoritarian gender identities.

  • P0027 - Stress, mental health and satisfaction among women doctors in England

  • U. Rout, R. Rout, J.K. Rout
  • Journal:
    European Psychiatry / Volume 23 / Issue S2 / April 2008
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 April 2020, pp. S88-S89
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  • Background:

    With the increasing numbers of women in medicine it is important to study this group separately as gender may affect stress, mental health and satisfaction level.

    Objectives:

    The aim of this study was to identify the sources of stress in women doctors that are predictive of mental ill-health job and dissatisfaction.

    Methods:

    Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used in this study. Twenty five doctors were interviewed of which 15 were women. In the second stage questionnaires assessing levels of mental health, job satisfaction and sources of stress were distributed to a random sample of doctors in the North West of England. Of the 249 doctors, 85 were women. This study is based on the women doctors only in order to avoid confounding the women sample with male subjects.

    Results:

    Multivariate analysis disclosed two job stressors that are predictive of mental ill-health; these were: communication and co-operation at work and demands of the job on family and social life. Two coping factors were predictive of job dissatisfaction, these were problem focused coping and wishful thinking. In addition, majority of women doctors showed high type A behaviour scores.

    Conclusions:

    There may be substantial benefit in providing a support network system for women doctors and other health care professionals who suffer from stress in the workplace.

  • English Women Doctors, Contraception and Family Planning in Transnational Perspective (1930s–70s)

  • Caroline Rusterholz
  • Journal:
    Medical History / Volume 63 / Issue 2 / April 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    26 March 2019, pp. 153-172
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  • This paper explores the influence of English female doctors on the creation of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and the production and circulation of contraceptive knowledge in England and, to a lesser extent in France, between 1930 and 1970. By drawing on the writings of female doctors and proceedings of international conferences as well as the archives of the British Medical Women’s Federation (MWF) and Family Planning Association (FPA), on the one hand, and Mouvement Français pour le Planning Familial (MFPF), on the other, this paper explores the agency of English female doctors at the national and transnational level. I recover their pioneering work and argue that they were pivotal in legitimising family planning within medical circles. I then turn to their influence on French doctors after World War II. Not only were English medical women active and experienced agents in the family planning movement in England; they also represented a conduit of information and training crucial for French doctors. Transfer of knowledge across the channel was thus a decisive tool for implementing family planning services in France.