Women Doctors on the Nineteenth Century Stage: Education and Entertainment
A talk on the creation of a new kind of women-only theatre that she (Longshore-Potts) and some other 19thC women doctors embarked on and why they did so.
Speaker
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Barbara BrookesBarbara Brookes is Professor Emerita in History, University of Otago. Her work has focused on the intersections between the history of women and the history of medicine. She is the author of the prize-winning, A History of Women in New Zealand (Bridget Williams Books, 2016). She is completing a biography of Anna Longshore Potts, provisionally entitled ‘Performing Medicine’.
