page_title: Clelia Duel Mosher
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Clelia Duel Mosher / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Clelia Duel Mosher, 1892
context_page_description: Clelia Duel Mosher was a physician, hygienist and women's health advocate who disapproved of Victorian stereotypes about the physical incapacities of women.
context_section_description: Mosher attended Wellesley College, the University of Wisconsin, and Stanford University, where she received a bachelor's degree in zoology in 1893. In 1894, she received a master's degree from Stanford. In 1896, Mosher became a student at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
  Mosher's Master's degree thesis disproved the then widely held belief that women were physically inferior to men because they could only breathe costally, showing instead it was only women’s fashionable corset clothing of the time that prevented diaphragmatic breathing. She found that women would breathe with their diaphragm with enough exercise.
caption: Clelia Duel Mosher, 1892
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