Ellen N. LaMotte : A Nurse in the 'Orient'

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This paper will focus on the pioneering and controversial career of Ellen N. LaMotte, nurse, journalist and author. Though marginalized and forgotten, her career overseas, first in Europe and then in the `Orient', will show us the opportunities opening up for women at the turn of the century America and how they sought out these opportunities. We witness LaMotte' struggle to define her role as an American and as internationalist. We come to see that her role as a nurse was crucial. It enabled her to challenge taboos dealing with the physical body and with sex. She never praised motherhood and home care as her colleagues did. Nor did she worship the seeming manliness represented by territorial expansion at a time when many women were playing supporting roles in colonizing activities. She was an avowed anti.imperialist. Yet she never accepted miscegenation. I hope to show that her unconventional criticism of motherhood, her firm anti.imperialism, her perception and harsh criticism of Christian hypocrisy, her strategy of preventive segregation, and her deep.rooted fear of miscegenation, key elements in her life, help us comprehend the United States when it emerges as an international power at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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