Politics and practices: the history of post-war women's health
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
Friday 22 - Saturday 23 October 2010
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.
Programme
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FRIDAY 22 OCTOBER
Session 1 (13:00 - 14:30)
Ambivalent productions: Culture, biology and the female body
Emma Jones (University of Manchester)
Unrecognised Illness or Social Construction? Responses to Premenstrual Syndrome from within the Women's Health Movement
Joanna Baines (University of Manchester)
Too Female to Live? Feminisation, Individualisation and Agency in Cancer Personality Discourse
Katherine Angel (University of Warwick)
Female Sexual Dysfunction?: Biological Psychiatry and Post-Feminism
Session 2: (15:00 - 17:00)
Prescribing femininity? Biomedical discourses in practice
Rose Elliot (University of Glasgow)
Miscarriage in 20th-century Britain
Gayle Davis (University of Edinburgh)
The Deception of Conception: Infertility and Artificial Insemination in 1950s Scotland
Yolanda Eraso (Oxford Brookes University)
Gendering Breast Cancer Treatments in International Perspective
Tracey Loughran, Cardiff University
Bloody Women: Feminist Reclamations and Rejections of Menstruation in 1970s Britain
Session 3 (17:15 - 18:15)
Conference Keynote
Judith Houck (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Political Practices: Feminist Health Activism and Feminist History
SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER
Session 4 (9:00 - 11:00)
Reproduction and reconstruction: Motherhood and the post-war nation-state
Aya Homei (University of Manchester)
Reproductive Men and Women in the Reconstructing Japan, 1945-1952
Darshi Thoradeniya (University of Warwick)
Of Emergences and Subjugations: Family Planning in Sri Lanka, 1953-2003
Katarzyna Stanczak-Wislicz (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Political Motherhood and the Experience of Mothering in Post-War Poland
Pamela Schievenin (Queen Mary, University of London)
Protecting Working Mothers' Health: Left-wing Women Politicians and the Struggle for a Modern Welfare State in Italy, 1948-1975
Session 5 (11:30 - 13:00)
Women, health care professionals, and the creation of post-war medicine
Susan Snoxall (Independent Scholar)
The Part Played by Chelsea Hospital for Women following the Second World War and the Commencement of the NHS
Jennifer Walke (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Gender and Madness in Post-War Bethlem: A Meeting of Minds?
Anne MacLellan (University College Dublin)
Dorothy Price and the Introduction of BCG Vaccination to Ireland
Session 6 (14:00 - 16:00)
Feminism, consumerism, and health organisations
Angela Davis (University of Warwick)
Educational Organisation, Pressure Group or Social Network? The National Childbirth Trust in Britain c. 1957-2000
Angela Grainger (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Calling All Women: Women's Organisations and the Campaign for the Cervical Smear Test in 1960s Britain
Christabelle Sethna (University of Ottawa)
London Calling: Canadian Women and Abortion Tourism, 1960-1980
Alex Mold (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Feminism, Consumerism or Activism? Understanding the Role of Patient Groups in Post-War Britain
Closing discussion (16:20 - 17:00)
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 and Dr Elizabeth Toon.