Sophia Jex-Blake and the Battle for Women Doctors

This book provides the first detailed account of Sophia Jex-Blake's previously unknown anonymous writing onher 1870s campaign for female doctors in Britain. Building upon the author's recent archival discovery that Jex-Blake secretly worked as a paid journalist for the Scotsman and authored many of their anonymous leading articles on her campaign, it provides a new look at an important and in many ways misunderstood character.

List of contents

1. Introduction: A Reassessment of Sophia Jex-Blake.- 2. Sophia Jex-Blake in Context.- 3. "Just One Lady": Sophia Jex-Blake Arrives in Edinburgh.- 4. "The Battle at Edinburgh": Sophia Jex-Blake's Secret Journalism.- 5. The Writing of Medical Women: A Thesis and a History (1886).- 6. Sophia Jex-Blake's Anonymous Self-Citation in Medical Women.- 7. Epilogue.

About the author

Sarah Ghasedi
is a researcher and Assistant Professor of English at Bellevue College, USA.

Summary

This book provides the first detailed account of Sophia Jex-Blake's previously unknown anonymous writing onher 1870s campaign for female doctors in Britain. Building upon the author's recent archival discovery that Jex-Blake secretly worked as a paid journalist for the
Scotsman
and authored many of their anonymous leading articles on her campaign, it provides a new look at an important and in many ways misunderstood character.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah J Ghasedi, Sarah J. Ghasedi
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 26.04.2026
• EAN: 9783032084675
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3208467-5
• Illustrations: Approx. 255 p. 5 illus.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Kulturwissenschaften, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Medienwissenschaft: Journalismus, Women's Writing, Medical Humanities, Nineteenth-Century Literature, News Journalism, Literature, Science and Medicine Studies, Female journalists, Edinburgh Seven, Medical Women's Campaign, Female doctors