Dogmatic Domesticity: Two Women's Quest for Scientific Objectivity in an Age of Darwinistic Patriarchy

Influenced by Protestant Christian culture prominent within the nineteenth century, this thesis focuses on two women: Antoinette Brown Blackwell and Mary Putnam Jacobi, who, working in complementary but separate ways, created a communal sphere of female authorship that mainly focused on the promotion of healthier medical practices for women. This community acted as an encouraging network and a catalyst to advocate for the bettering and increasing demand for professional opportunities for women. Brown Blackwell and Putnam Jacobi created this community through the influence of the political and social beliefs of the time, and their goal was to strive toward their own definitions of objectivity to combat the preconceived notions and misconceptions of the gender binary.