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Book Reviews 91 through a series of “lurid” feature stories published by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, a leading local newspaper of the day. Portraying the good doctor as a “knife-happy” and reckless practitioner, these newspaper stories eventually led to two manslaughter indictments and eight malpractice suits. After spending 2 long years clearing her name of all criminal and civil charges, Dixon Jones then retaliated, suing the Eagle for libel in a widely covered case, replete with a variety of mud-slinging, high drama, and personal tragedy. The reader is treated to a series of stories of “midnight hearses and botched operations” that dramatize broader controversies in the evolving field of gynecological surgery, emerging and conflicting theories of women’s health, and the role of women surgeons. Even abortion rears its ugly head in this messy affair. Casting Dixon-Jones as a transitional figure, Morantz-Sanchez uses her story to reveal complexities and evades easy categorizations and conclu- sions. No feminist icon, Dixon-Jones emerges as a flesh-and-blood woman, shaped by and instrumental in shaping the times in which she lived. Refusing to interpret women’s health problems as a result of inherent weak- ness, she nonetheless sought to treat them through new and radical surgical
Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work – SAGE
Published: Feb 1, 2003
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