Date of Award
Summer 8-4-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
History
First Advisor
Daniel Hurewitz
Second Advisor
Laura Schor
Academic Program Adviser
Karen Kern
Abstract
This paper examines trailblazing American female doctors of the nineteenth century in New York. Through the lives of Dr. Susan Smith Mckinney Steward, who is black, and Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, who is white, this analysis tries to understand what motivated these women and how they succeeded in spite of the confines of women’s prescriptive role in nineteenth-century America.
Recommended Citation
Bogdanovich, Alexandra W., "The Inconspicuous Lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward and Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell" (2021). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/775