Foreword
Frances K. Conley
Introduction
I. Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
1. Overview of Women Physicians in the United States
Leah J. Dickstein
2. Leveling the Playing Field: A National Perspective on Sexism and Professional Development in Medicine
Janet Bickel
3. Women's Programs at Medical Schools and Feminism: What is the Intersection?
Delese Wear and Janet Bickel
II. Training and Workplace Perspectives
4. Lighting Candles, Making Sparks, and Remembering Not To Forget
Jacalyn Duffin
5. A Feminist in the Medical Academy: An Idealistic Pragmatist Account
Mary B. Mahowald
6. Father Knows Best ...?
Deborah L. Jones
7. A Black Woman in Medicine
Dale G. Blackstock
8. The Feminization of Medicine
Perri Klass
9. If the Suit Fits ...
Kate H. Brown
10. Feminist Criticism in Literature and Medicine
Delese Wear
11. Innovations in Residency Education: General Internal Medicine - Women's Health Residency Track
Pamela Charney
12. Life as a Sheep in the Cow's Pasture
Marian Gray Secundy
III. Personal and Professional Identities
13. The Echo of My Mother's Footsteps
Rebekah Wang-Cheng
14. How Medicine Tried to Make a Man Out of Me (And Failed, Finally)
Lucy M. Candib
15. Moments of Becoming: After Virginia Woolf
Beth Alexander
16. Special Armor
Marjorie S. Sirridge
References
Contributors
Index