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Peterson, M. Jeanne was born on November 26, 1937 in Minnesota, United States.
( Physically frail, badly educated girls, brought up to l...)
Physically frail, badly educated girls, brought up to lead useless lives as idle gentlewomen, married to dominant husbands, and relegated to "separate spheres" of life―these phrases have often been used to describe Victorian upper-middle-class women. M. Jeanne Peterson rejects such formulations and the received wisdom they embody in favor of a careful examination of Victorian ladies and their lives. Focusing on a network of urban professional families over three generations, this book examines the scope and quality of gentlewomen's education, their physical lives, their relationship to money, their experience of family illness and death, and their relationships to men (brothers and friends as well as fathers and husbands). Peterson also examines the prominent place of work in the lives of these "leisured" Victorian ladies, both single and married. Far from idle, the mothers, wives, and daughters of Victorian clergymen, doctors, lawyers, university dons, and others were accomplished and productive members of society who made substantial public and private contributions to virtually every sphere of Victorian life.
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Peterson, M. Jeanne was born on November 26, 1937 in Minnesota, United States.
Bachelor magna cum laude, University California, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, 1972.
Lecturer, assistant, associate professor Indiana University, Bloomington, 1971-1987, professor history, since 1987, chairperson department history, 1987—1993, executive associate dean College Arts and Sciences, 1993—1999, acting chair gender studies department, 1999—2000, professor emerita history, foundation professor emerita gender studies, since 2001. Consultant Journal Women's History, Bulletin History Medicine, J. British Studies, University Michigan Press, Butler University, Indianapolis, Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, Columbia University Press, Indiana University Press, State University of New York Press, Food and Foodways, J. British Studies, Medical History, American Council of Learned Societies, American History Review, Victorian Studies, Society Sciences & Humanities Research Council Canada, National Endowment of the Humanities, National Institutes of Health, Canada Council, Adam Matthew Ltd., State University of New York Brockport, Johns Hopkins University Press, University Virginia Press, University Toronto Press, Ligature, Inc., Broadview Press, American Philosophical Society, Wellcome Trust (United Kingdom). Trust (United Kingdom), Arts & Entertainment Network (television).
External review committee University Nebraska, Lincoln, 1992, University Iowa, 1995. Master of Arts review committee University North Carolina, Greensboro, 1993.
( Physically frail, badly educated girls, brought up to l...)
The Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London
(Examines the social origins of 19th century medical men a...)
Reviewer: Tenure Review, State University of New York Brockport. Author: The Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London, 1978, Family, Love, and Work in the Lives of Victorian Gentlewomen, 1989. Associate editor: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.Co-editor: Lizzie Borden: A Case Book of Family and Crime in the 1890s, 1980. Contributor articles to professional journals.
Member American History Association, Society for the Social History Medicine, North America Conference British Studies, American Association History Medicine, North America Victorian Studies Association, Phi Beta Kappa.
Daughter of Clifford Woodrow and Mildred Amelia (Kukas) P.