Lydia Reeder celebrates the female physician who debunked sexist Victorian-era medicine in The Cure for Women.
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9781250284457
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St. Martin’s
9781250284457
Lydia Reeder celebrates the female physician who debunked sexist Victorian-era medicine in The Cure for Women.
When Charlotte Perkins Gilman published “The Yellow Wallpaper” in 1892, it was a resounding hit among Victorian readers. What many did not know was that the story was a fictionalized account of Gilman’s own experience with the madness-inducing “rest cure” popular among doctors at the time, used to subdue any sort of mental or emotional…
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