Bravery Without Borders: WWI Women Physicians in the Near East

Early 20th-century women medics created a central place for themselves in providing medical aid to women and children overseas, often in very dangerous and difficult circumstances. Several of these women, including Ruth A. Parmelee and Esther Pohl Lovejoy, went on to found hospitals in the Near East where female-led institutions had heretofore been rare. They shaped a narrative of motherhood to be shared with the American public in which childbirth and maternal responsibilities were described as relentless, even in the face of disaster, thus justifying their presence as helpers in foreign and sometimes horrific situations. Based on original research by Dr. Virginia Metaxas of SCSU. Please sign up for this singular talk below!