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