BIBFRAME Work

Title

The cure for women

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the challenge to Victorian medicine that changed women's lives forever

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Reeder, Lydia (author )

Subject

• Sex differences--History--19th century (LCSH)
• Women physicians--United States (LCSH)
• Jacobi, Mary Putnam, 1842-1906 (LCNAF)
• Medical education--United States--History--19th century (LCSH)
• Women's rights--United States--History--19th century (LCSH)
• Women in medicine--History--19th century (LCSH)
• Women physicians--New York (State) (LCSH)
• Women--Health and hygiene--United States--History--19th century (LCSH)

Genre Form

• Biographies (LCGFT)

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 610/.82097309034, B (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: R692.J33 R44 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood-and the brilliant doctor who defied them After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to universities like Harvard, women built their own first-rate medical schools and hospitals. Their success spurred a chilling backlash from elite, white male physicians who were obsessed with eugenics and the propagation of the white race. Distorting Darwin's evolution theory, these haughty physicians proclaimed in bestselling books that women should never be allowed to attend college or enter a profession because their menstrual cycles made them perpetually sick. Motherhood was their constitution and duty. Into the midst of this turmoil marched tiny, dynamic Mary Putnam Jacobi, daughter of New York publisher George Palmer Putnam and the first woman to be accepted into the world-renowned Sorbonne medical school in Paris. As one of the best-educated doctors in the world, she returned to New York for the fight of her life. Aided by other prominent women physicians and suffragists, Jacobi conducted the first-ever data-backed, scientific research on women's reproductive biology. The results of her studies shook the foundations of medical science and higher education. Full of larger than life characters and cinematically written, The Cure for Women documents the birth of a sexist science still haunting us today as the fight for control of women's bodies and lives continues"-- Provided by publisher.

Authorized Access Point

Reeder, Lydia. The cure for women

Geographic Coverage

• United States
• New York (State)

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:12:13.375958+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23737975

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc