»Gold Fever« and Women: Transformations in Lives, Health Care and Medicine in the 19th Century American West

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Frontmatter Full access Pages 1 - 4 Download chapter (PDF)
Contents Full access Pages 5 - 8 Download chapter (PDF)
Acknowledgments No access Pages 9 - 12
Abstract No access Pages 13 - 14
Introduction No access Pages 15 - 36
Introduction No access Pages 37 - 42
2.1 Women''s Life Writings in the "Forgotten Century" No access Pages 42 - 43
2.2 "Damned mob of scribbling women" No access Pages 43 - 51
2.3 Narrative Spaces of Life Writing No access Pages 51 - 59
2.4 Native American Autobiography: A "Mangled" Genre No access Pages 59 - 68
3.1 Cultural Concepts of Space and Place No access Pages 69 - 75
3.2 "Manifest Destiny Aesthetics" – Cultural (Mis)representations of the West No access Pages 75 - 77
3.3 Bringing "Progress" to the West No access Pages 78 - 81
3.4 Go West, Young Woman! No access Pages 81 - 90
3.5 Cultural Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Women''s "Proper Place" No access Pages 90 - 105
3.6 The Transformation of Domestic Boundaries and Nineteenth-Century Medicine No access Pages 105 - 120
4.1 Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte: "The First Woman Physician Among Her People" No access Pages 121 - 176
4.2 Patty Bartlett Sessions: The Role of Mormon Women and Medicine in Settling Salt Lake, Utah No access Pages 177 - 204
4.3 Life of Dr. Bethenia Owens-Adair: "Mother of [Oregon''s] Sterilization Bill" No access Pages 204 - 256
Introduction No access Pages 257 - 266
Works Cited No access Pages 267 - 288