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[Chris]

pass on as you wish - cheers - Chris

>Southern Branch, Women's History Network (Call 
>for papers – deadline extended)
>Spring Meeting: Women, Health and Welfare
>Saturday 17th March 2012
>Kingston University
>.
>Kingston University's Centre for the Historical 
>Record (CHR) will host the Spring 2012 one-day 
>conference organised by the Women's History 
>Network, Southern Branch. The topic is 
>deliberately broad to encourage a wide range of 
>papers and participants interested in the 
>history of women's health and welfare. In 
>resonance with the CHR's remit to promote public 
>history, the conference seeks to identify themes 
>from history that resonate with women's 
>experiences of health and welfare today, and can 
>inform policy makers. Proposals for papers are 
>invited that relate to women either as receivers 
>or providers of health and welfare, in any time 
>period. We are particularly interested in papers 
>that discuss these twin themes in women‟s 
>history in the context of public history, which 
>may include a discussion of available archival 
>sources and records. Conference themes might 
>include those listed below, but we would be 
>interested to receive papers on any theme that 
>falls within the broad remit of the conference:
>Women and Health
>Physical health – different understandings of 
>„illness‟ and and the medicalisation of women's bodies.
>Mental health - changing ideas about treatment 
>and perceptions of women's relationship with their inner selves.
>Sexuality and medical discourse.
>Women and Welfare 3
>The impact of welfare policy on women.
>The impact of women on welfare policy.
>Women as consumers of welfare.
>Public History
>How can women's history direct or inform modern 
>media debates in matters relating to women‟s health and welfare?
>How can women's history help inform current 
>policy on women‟s health and welfare?
>How well is women's health represented in 
>archives and discussions on accessibility to relevant records?
>
>
>Please send a proposal of 250 words and a short 
>biographical note to Sue Hawkins 
>(s.e.hawkins at kingston.ac.uk) or Nicola Phillips 
>(n.phillips at kingston.ac.uk). The deadline for 
>the submission of proposals is 16 January 2012.
>
>Dr. Margaretta Jolly
>CCE, Mantell Building Room 4b20
>University of Sussex
>Falmer, BN1 9RF
><mailto:m.jolly at sussex.ac.uk>m.jolly at sussex.ac.uk
>01273 873585
>http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/16251
>Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research
><http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/>http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/
>Sisterhood and After: The Women’s Liberation Oral History Project
><http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/research/sisterhoodafter>http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/research/sisterhoodafter
>
>_______________________________________________
>
>The University's contact details are at 
>http://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/contactus
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