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This paper aims to examine how the radical transformations of the conception about woman’s role and professionalization of medicine in the late 19th-century America are reflected in Elizabeth Stuart Pehlps’s Doctor Zay. Throughout her career, Phelps challenged the notion that a woman’s place was in the home. She provided a variety of potential role models by depicting women as succeeding in traditionally male-dominated professions, such as business, medicine, and the ministry. She also tried to promote women’s rights by claiming the importance of woman’s education and woman’s work in the public sphere.
Doctor Zay features a strong-minded woman doctor, “a new kind of woman,” who is dedicated to a life of a professional doctor in preference to a married life of a “true woman.” Waldo Yorke is entrusted to her care after a carriage accident. In contrast to the stereotypical notion that woman is defined as an “invalid” by male doctors, the relationship of the male patient and the female doctor exemplifies an inversion of traditional male-female roles. Yorke is confounded by this inversion at first, but gradually gets attracted to Doctor Zay. She, however, refuses his proposals twice before she finally accepts him. Nonetheless, the ending, in effect, does not guarantee that the marriage will be happy, rather it generates serious reservations on the part of readers. Thus the novel undermines the happy marriage plot of domestic novels by presenting, in the course of the novel, the inversion of gender roles and a subversively reconceptualized new woman exerting powerful agency over a man in courtship as well as in medical treatment.

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1. 머리말
 2. 전문성 문화의 출현과 펠프스의 개혁 의식
 3. 새로운 여성 유형의 창조
 4. 전도된 성역할과 결말의 의미
 5. 맺음말-여성 역할의 재규정을 향하여
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저자

• 손정희 [ Jeonghee Sohn ]

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간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  미국소설 [마크 트웨인 리뷰]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1738-5784

• 수록기간

  1991~2020

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 843 DDC 813