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SUMMARY:Rodgers Readers  - The Cure for Women
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our lively book discussion on The Cure for Women: 
 Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed 
 Women's Lives Forever by Lydia Reeder.  Come share your thoughts on the 
 book and get to know other readers in our community.\n\n 
 \n\n\n\nDescription: "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. \n\nInto 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.\n\n \n\n\n\nCopies of the 
 book are available at the Circulation Desk while supplies 
 last.\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is not required\, yet it's helpful for 
 planning purposes.
LOCATION:Community Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Michele Ricca":MAILTO:michelericca@rodgerslibrary.org
CATEGORIES:Adult Services Program
CONTACT;CN="Michele Ricca":MAILTO:michelericca@rodgerslibrary.org
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