Women physicians and the cultures of medicine

Abstract

Being a Woman Physician, deals with the eon Rices between professional identity and the norms ot femininity and sexuality in the careers ol tour doctors: three who specialized in temale physiology, gynecology, and obstetrics between ISdO ,mВї 1920. and the sex educator Mary Steichen Calderone, who practiced in the post-World War II era. [...] her charge that the federal government did noi elettile race and gender disparities in health as politically important until it was forced to do so in the POIs alter decades ol activism by feminists, civil rights activists, and consumer health advocates' overlooks the important early history ol federal efforts to address regional, racial, and urban-rural disparities through a wide range ot New Deal and World War II- era programs that expanded health services for millions of women and opened opportunities to women practitioners (p. 175).