When women gained access to the medical field in late the late 1800’s the ideal image of a physician was a masculine man. Women doctors needed more than officially recognised competence to be successful within the profession. Several of the first Swedish women doctors was published in the great medical journals of the time. They also wrote hygiene books to teach common women about their bodies. By writing for colleagues and other women to read, women doctors constructed a persona which was upheld by gendered performative actions. These were expressed in how the women doctors wrote about their own and other doctors’ research as well as in how they wrote about women’s bodies. In this way they created a professional identity which included current ideals for physicians as well as women. The goal which these actions were to reach a doctor’s ethos, which was considered needed to be seen as a good doctor. The first women doctors did so in a feminine way.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-443428 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Bergström, Emilia |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | Introductory research essay / Department of Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, 1404-4919 |
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