This book provides the first detailed account of Sophia Jex-Blake's previously unknown anonymous writing onher 1870s campaign for female doctors in Britain. Building upon the author's recent archival discovery that Jex-Blake secretly worked as a paid journalist for the Scotsman and authored many of their anonymous leading articles on her campaign, it provides a new look at an important and in many ways misunderstood character.

Offers new insights into Jex-Blake's campaign for women to be allowed to study medicine in Britain First book-length treatment of Jex-Blake's anonymous journalism based on exciting archival discoveries Explores periodical print culture and feminist textual strategies in the nineteenth century

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Sarah Ghasedi is a researcher and Assistant Professor of English at Bellevue College, USA.

Klappentext

This book provides the first account of Sophia Jex-Blake’s secret writings for the Scotsman newspaper, anonymous contributions that shaped her 1870s campaign for women doctors in Britain. Drawing upon the author's recent discovery that Jex-Blake worked as a paid journalist for the Scotsman during the campaign and later praised and cited her own pieces while allowing readers to believe they had been written by a man, it weaves these revelations into an updated narrative that centers Jex-Blake’s strategic use of the press to shape public opinion and steer legal debates. An important and often misunderstood historical figure, this account deepens and complicates Jex-Blake’s legacy by revealing her careful, strategic efforts to open the medical profession to women. Essential for anyone interested in women’s history, medicine, journalism, and social reform, this book reveals the way in which one woman was able use the power of the press to shape the political and legal battle for women’s access to the medical profession.

Sarah Ghasedi is a researcher and Assistant Professor of English at Bellevue College, USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: A Reassessment of Sophia Jex-Blake.- 2. Sophia Jex-Blake in Context.- 3. "Just One Lady": Sophia Jex-Blake Arrives in Edinburgh.- 4. "The Battle at Edinburgh": Sophia Jex-Blake's Secret Journalism.- 5. The Writing of Medical Women: A Thesis and a History (1886).- 6. Sophia Jex-Blake's Anonymous Self-Citation in Medical Women.- 7. Epilogue.