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= Wikipedia Project = Brooke and I are working on improving the Rachel Bodley article on Wikipedia. You can find my work here and her work on her sandbox. I have started a few copyedits and some notes from the book source. Our current sources are listed or cited below.

Rachel Bodley Drafting and Notes
=== Biography ===


 * During her career she taught chemistry, biology, and toxicology.
 * furthered the cause of professional education for women in the US
 * performed and published studies on the success of female college graduates in the field of medicine
 * She was raised Presbyterian
 * She was the third of five children; she had 2 older brothers and 2 younger sisters


 * Assistant teacher at Wesleyan Female College from her graduation there until Fall 1860
 * She was also the first to excel as a teacher of chemistry in a medical school
 * she was elected Dean of the Faculty at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in January 1874, which she held until her death in 1888 She held both positions until her death
 * taught and lectured for short periods at other institutions as well
 * She was selected along with six other women in 1883 to asses various schools in Philadelphia County for the Board of Public Charities of the State of Pennsylvania
 * Elected to State Historical Society of Wisconsin in 1864,
 * died of Heart Failure
 * her memorial service was held at the Women's College on October 13, 1888

Copyedit (copied content from Rachel Bodley article and made fixes/additions)
Rachel Littler Bodley (December 7, 1831 – June 15, 1888) was an American professor, botanist, and university leader. She was best known for her term as Dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1874–1888).

Early Life and Education
Bodley was born December 7, 1831 in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was the eldest daughter of the Presbyterian carpenter and pattern maker Anthony Prichard Bodley, of Scotch-Irish descent, and teacher Rebecca Wilson Bodley (née Talbott), of English Quaker descent. Bodley was named after her maternal grandmother, Rachel Littler Talbott, and was raised Presbyterian like her two older brothers and two younger sisters. She completed her primary education by age 12 at the private school her mother ran. In 1844 she entered the Wesleyan Female College in Cincinnati and she graduated at age 17 in 1849. During her studies, she stood out for her work in the college's literary society.

MrScaryDude (talk) 14:25, 11 October 2019 (UTC) MrScaryDude (talk) 23:57, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Career and Further Education
She was selected as an assistant teacher at Wesleyan after her graduation and rose to the role of preceptress in the higher collegiate studies. Though she was lauded for her work at Wesleyan, she was not content with her achievements there and decided to pursue further education. In 1860, she begun studying advanced chemistry and physics at the Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania, then the foremost institution of the applied sciences in the US. During this time, she also studied practical anatomy and physiology at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, which she would finish later in her career.

In 1862, Bodley returned to teaching as a professor of natural sciences at the Cincinnati Female Seminary. She made extensive effort in the organization and arrangement of an herbarium which had been donated to the Seminary by the heirs of Joseph Clark (1823-1858), a resident of Cincinnati. It was an extensive collection of local flora, and the guide to the collection which Bodley compiled, Catalogue of Plants Contained in Herbarium of Joseph Clark, printed in 1865, also served as a guide to plants for students and travelers in the Cincinnati area. Bodley assembled this work in her free time from 1862 to 1865. It was the first record of Ohio flora prepared by a woman and her most significant work in botany; her work was later congratulated by Asa Gray, the premier American botanist of the 18th century, as a "very satisfactory contribution to science". MrScaryDude (talk) 15:51, 11 October 2019 (UTC). She later studied many strange plants including Venus flytrap, Lily of the valley, Snowdrops, dwarf hose chestnut, and Alpine sandwort. During her tenure at the Seminary, Bodley continued private study in higher mathematics, microscopy, phonography, elocution, music, French, German, and drawing.

In 1865, she left the Cincinnati Female Seminary to become the Chair of Chemistry and Toxicology at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she would spend the rest of her career. She was the first woman to hold the title Professor of Chemistry at a medical school, the first female chemist on the faculty, and the first faculty member appointed from outside Philadelphia. Bodley brought a science-focused approach to teaching her students in medicine, emphasizing the science of medicine rather than the art of medicine. Bodley stressed attention to detail and use of facts, logic, and solid arguments to her students rather than intuition, "womanliness", and emotion, the latter of which was common in medical instruction at the time. In 1871, she was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree from her alumni, Wesleyan Female College, one of the first honorary degrees given by the institution.

Bodley was elected Dean of the Faculty in January 1874, where she remained until her death. Bodley reformed the curriculum by implementing progressive policies that increased the length of instruction to 3 years and allowed for more demonstrations and practical instruction in classes. She oversaw the contruction of a surgical amphitheater and a surgical hall, which greatly expanded opportunities in clinical training. For the valedictorian address of 1881, Bodley presented "The College Story", the results of a survey into to the post-graduation lives of the 244 living alumnae of the Women's Medical College. It was one of the first studies of female medical graduates in America, for which Bodley approached the topic in the terms of a scientific experiment, seeking to use "the same method, applied to the subject of the medical education of women." The survey found that, of the 189 women who responded, 88% were still practicing medicine, with only 8 women citing "domestic duties" as their reason for leaving the medical practice. This helped to refute the claims of opponents of female medical education, who maintaintained that women would simply give up the practice once they married. She presided over the 1886 graduation of Anandi Gopal Joshi, the second Hindu woman to obtain a degree in Western medicine (the first being Kadambini Ganguly). The event was witnessed by Pandita Ramabai and she was congratulated by Queen Victoria. Bodley later wrote an introduction to Pandita Ramabai's book The High-Caste Hindu Woman (1887).

Personal Life and Legacy
Bodley maintained a passion for botany after her work on the herbarium, and always brought equipment for collecting and preparing plant specimens with her during summer trips to scenic and historic locations.

Rachel Bodley died of heart failure in her Philadelphia home on June 15, 1888. Her memorial service was held at the Women's Medical College on October 13, 1888. She was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati.

In 1979, the Women's Medical College posthumously awarded Bodely with an honorary M.D. degree.

Early Life and Education

 * 1) birth, family, childhood, education

Career

 * 1) Wesleyan Female College
 * 2) Cincinnati Female Seminary
 * 3) Women's Medical College
 * 4) Chair of Chemistry & Toxicology
 * 5) Dean of the Faculty

Honors and Memberships
Brooke is working on this

Her Sandbox: User:Brrgdw/sandbox

Personal Life
Friends, professional contacts, hosting students, death, mention she didn't marry

=Sources=

IsisCB Article


 * https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000060228/?fromsearch=true&query_string=Rachel%20Bodley&last_query=/isis/%3Fq%3DRachel%2BBodley%26models%3Disisdata.citation%26sort_order_citation%3Dpublication_date_for_sort%26sort_order_dir_citation%3Ddescend%26sort_order_dir_authority%3Dascend

UPenn Library page


 * http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/detail.html?id=PACSCL_DUCOM_WMSC420xml

MrScaryDude (talk) 16:19, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Rachel_L_Bodley

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/American_Medical_Biographies/Bodley,_Rachel_L.

quick point
The UPenn archives are super important and you should link to them in the article on wikipedia (if they aren't already) but as a source...you can't go there to view them so try to find more secondary sources. K8shep (talk) 18:58, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Potential Sources
The Missionary Offering


 * https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moajrnl;idno=acg2248.1-15.004

Alumnae of Wesleyan Female College


 * https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/acg2248.1-13.009/465:35?rgn=full+text;view=image

Pandita Ramabai's Life through Her Landmark Texts


 * um9mh3ku7s.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsummon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Tracing+the+voice%3A+Pandita+Ramabai%27s+life+through+her+landmark+texts&rft.jtitle=Australian+Feminist+Studies&rft.au=Kosambi%2C+Meera&rft.date=2004-03-01&rft.pub=Taylor+and+Francis+Ltd&rft.issn=0816-4649&rft.eissn=1465-3303&rft.volume=19&rft.issue=43&rft.spage=19&rft.epage=28&rft_id=info:doi/10.1080%2F0816464042000197404&rft.externalDocID=10038305&paramdict=en-US

Catalogue of plants contained in the herbarium of Joseph Clark [electronic resource] : arranged according to the natural system                                                                                / Bodley, Rachel L

MrScaryDude (talk) 14:48, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
 * mobius-encore.lib.umsystem.edu/iii/encore/record/C__Rb32737082__Srachel%20bodley__P0%2C7__Orightresult__U__X2?lang=eng&suite=cobalt

Peer review by Lindsey Carvalho
The draft does well at making a whole bibliography section and having a lot of information in it. I do like how it went in order from age 12 to death for her studies and achievements. The structure for the draft is very concise and detailed. Some of the sentence structures and word choices pulled from Rachel Bodley’s Wikipedia article should also be adjusted such as “She attended the primary school her mother ran until age 12.” This sentence personally, just hits weird and seems kind of dry. It doesn’t lead to the next sentence and makes me feel like I should stop reading there. There is also nothing on where she was born/grew up or even where the primary school her mother ran was. That would be good to throw in just to give context to where her early life began. I see that information is under her picture in the already existent Wikipedia article for her but even throwing it into the draft wouldn’t hurt because I’m not sure how many people actually read that before they read the article if that makes sense. I believe your draft (other than the first paragraph) flows so much better than what is on her article at the moment. The first paragraph is the only one that feels wrong. I like the section for societies and notable organizations and groups (although the name should be changed) because you can see how much she accomplished without having to dig through the article.Lindseycarvalho (talk) 15:38, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Response to Peer Review
I appreciate that you noticed the start I made on the overall article structure. It was a recent idea that I think will help later on in the project to keep everything organized. I see what you mean about the sentence about her primary school. I'll look into making the sentence more robust and fit better into that section of the page. I believe one of my sources contains some more information on that point. There is also one sentence prior to that in the article that mentions her parents; I'll be sure to copyedit that as well to include her birthplace and such to improve the readability and flow of the article.

We noticed when researching that Bodley was in numerous notable societies that deserved their own section. We plan to change the title to something more concise like "Professional Societies" or something along those lines.

Peer Review by Emily Violett
The draft covers a lot of the pieces missing from the article about her life and work. The outline that you guys have made is impressive, it is coherent and helpful to navigate the important parts in her life. I think the most important change that needs to be made to the article is adding more detail about her work as a professor and about the deeper impact of her being the first female professor of chemistry in a medical school. Surely there were things that came from that, broader opportunity for other women and such that could be expanded upon because that seems to be where a lot of her historical significance lays. Something that I will take away from your draft is definitely how detailed your article structure, I am going to write one up for my article as well.

Response to Peer Review
I think our outline will help build our article well down the line as we gather more information; I appreciate you addressing it. We plan to add more detail about her life as a professor and university official, but we have yet to integrate that. Our most significant source will help us greatly in improving the depth and breadth of the information provided in her career section. We plan to expand on her lectures and duties as professor of chemistry, toxicology, and other subjects. And we plan to find other things she did that set an example for future professors.

Evaluating Wikipedia Assignment
•Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

Everything in the article is relevant to its subject, but something that distracted me is that the heading "Life" is the only text block in the article besides the introduction. It could be broken up into different headings, and expanded upon.

•Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

I don't see any biased claims or heavily pushed positions, but I'd like too see more about her work as a professor. Most of the content is about her tenure as Dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.

•Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

I think that the Life heading could be separated into early life, education, work as a professor in Cincinnati, work as a chair and then Dean in Pennsylvania, and later years/death. The Works heading is very short, mentioning only the titles of her publications. I think adding the year, topic, and some more information

•Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?

There are only 3 citations in this article, but all are from books, so they cannot be checked from the web. Two references are from biographical dictionaries, the other is from an encyclopedia. All three have the topic of cataloging American science or women in science, so I believe they would support the claims put forth in the article. Additionally, one book is from MIT.

• Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?

More references need to be used. I see only 4 references in the article, which are all to the sources at the bottom. I cannot evaluate the sources beyond their title, topic, and publisher, but they could likely be used more extensively to expand sections and paragraphs of the article with appropriate references.

•Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?

I think information on what she studied in college is missing, as well as what she taught as a professor and lab work that she did. I also think there is more to be written about her 23 years as Dean in Pennsylvania, and the science academies she was a member of. The Introduction is only 2 sentences, and could be expanded to give a better summary and overview of the subject.

• Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?

No conversations are going on, which shows this article has not been edited in a while and there are no recent contributors. This is a sign that not many are currently interested in this article, and perhaps that some more sources should be found to increase the volume of information about the person, or to start conversations that may invite more contributions.

•How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?

It is rated Start-Class, and is a part of WikiProjects Women in Science, WikiProjects Pennsylvania, and WikiProjects Biography / Science and Academia. These designations show that the article is of interest to Wikipedia, and that there are important facts to state about firsts she may have achieved as a female scientist.

•How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

The article mentions colleagues and associates more often than Rachel Bodley's work. While her connections, students, and colleagues are important, I think too much of the article is about what she did for others and her relationships with others. Perhaps more could be added about her works in the laboratory and her work as a student, as as well as significant things she achieved as chair and dean.

MrScaryDude (talk) 16:19, 27 September 2019 (UTC)