nineteenth century literature, Uruguayan female writers, gender studies

Abortion , Race , and Gender in Nineteenth - Century America

launched a successful campaign to criminalize abortion at all stages of pregnancy. Virtually every state had passed laws criminalizing abortion by 1890, and most gave physicians authority to decide when abortion was medically necessary (Mohr 1978; Luker 1984).1 Many of these laws remained unchanged until vacated by the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Most historians of abortion asser...

Conscientious workmen or booksellers' hacks? The professional identities of science writers in the mid-nineteenth century.

Existing scholarship on the debates over expertise in mid-nineteenth-century Britain has demonstrated the importance of popular writings on the sciences to definitions of scientific authority. Yet while men of science might position themselves in opposition to the stereotype of the merely popular writer, the self-identity of the popular writer remained ambiguous. This essay examines the careers...

Sowing Seeds Of Subversion: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers' Subversive Use Of Fairy Tales And Folklore

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Guardians and angels. Parents and children in nineteenth-century literature

Medical America in the nineteenth century. Readings from the literature

American medicine was derivative in its origins. Beginning as an element of a culture brought from Europe by the first settlers, it was influenced by European sources and trends throughout much of its evolution. According to Dixon Ryan Fox, cultural transfers of this kind occur in four stages. First, a few educated in the mother country emigrate to the new settlement; then, the colonial youth a...