Politics and Practices: The History of Post-war Women?s Health
Friday 22 October ? Saturday 23 October
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
The University of Manchester
With support from the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Historical Society
We invite interested researchers to join us for this two-day
conference, which will showcase recent scholarship and current
work-in-progress on the politics, policy and practice of women?s
health after 1945.
Attendance is free, but there will be a charge for meals. For more
details about the conference location and events, and to confirm
attendance, please contact the conference organisers, Dr Emma Jones
([log in to unmask]) and Dr Elizabeth Toon
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For a downloadable pdf of this conference programme, please consult
http://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/newsandevents/conferences/index.asp
FRIDAY 22 OCTOBER
Session 1 (13:00 ? 14:30): Ambivalent productions: Culture, biology
and the female body
Unrecognised Illness or Social Construction? Responses to Premenstrual
Syndrome from within the Women?s Health Movement
--Emma Jones, University of Manchester
Too Female to Live? Feminisation, Individualisation and Agency in
Cancer Personality Discourse
--Joanna Baines, University of Manchester
?Female Sexual Dysfunction?: Biological Psychiatry and Post-Feminism
--Katherine Angel, University of Warwick
Session 2: (15:00 ? 17:00): Prescribing femininity? Biomedical
discourses in practice
Miscarriage in 20th-century Britain
--Rose Elliot, University of Glasgow
The Deception of Conception: Infertility and Artificial Insemination
in 1950s Scotland
--Gayle Davis, University of Edinburgh
Gendering Breast Cancer Treatments in International Perspective
--Yolanda Eraso, Oxford Brookes University
Bloody Women: Feminist Reclamations and Rejections of Menstruation in
1970s Britain
--Tracey Loughran, Cardiff University
Session 3 (17:15 ? 18:15): Conference Keynote
Political Practices: Feminist Health Activism and Feminist History
--Judith Houck, Associate Professor of Medical History, History of
Science, and Gender and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER
Session 4 (9:00 ? 11:00): Reproduction and reconstruction: Motherhood
and the post-war nation-state
Reproductive Men and Women in the Reconstructing Japan, 1945-1952
--Aya Homei, University of Manchester
Of Emergences and Subjugations: Family Planning in Sri Lanka, 1953-2003
--Darshi Thoradeniya, University of Warwick
Political Motherhood and the Experience of Mothering in Post-War Poland
--Katarzyna Stanczak-Wislicz, Polish Academy of Sciences
Protecting Working Mothers? Health: Left-wing Women Politicians and
the Struggle for a Modern Welfare State in Italy, 1948-1975
--Pamela Schievenin, Queen Mary, University of London
Session 5 (11:30 ? 13:00): Women, health care professionals, and the
creation of post-war medicine
The Part Played by Chelsea Hospital for Women following the Second
World War and the Commencement of the NHS
--Susan Snoxall, Independent Scholar
Gender and Madness in Post-War Bethlem: A Meeting of Minds?
--Jennifer Walke, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dorothy Price and the Introduction of BCG Vaccination to Ireland
--Anne MacLellan, University College Dublin
Session 6 (14:00 ? 16:00): Feminism, consumerism, and health organisations
Educational Organisation, Pressure Group or Social Network? The
National Childbirth Trust in Britain c. 1957-2000
--Angela Davis, University of Warwick
Calling All Women: Women?s Organisations and the Campaign for the
Cervical Smear Test in 1960s Britain
--Angela Grainger, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London Calling: Canadian Women and Abortion Tourism, 1960-1980
--Christabelle Sethna, University of Ottawa
Feminism, Consumerism or Activism? Understanding the Role of Patient
Groups in Post-War Britain
--Alex Mold, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Closing discussion (16:20 ? 17:00)
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