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<font size=4 color="#0000FF"><b>pass on as you wish - cheers -
Chris<br><br>
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Branch, Women's History Network (Call for papers – deadline extended)
<br>
Spring Meeting: Women, Health and Welfare <br>
Saturday 17th March 2012 <br>
Kingston University <br>
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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: <br>
<b>Women and Health <br>
</b>Physical health – different understandings of „illness‟ and and the
medicalisation of women's bodies. <br>
Mental health - changing ideas about treatment and perceptions of women's
relationship with their inner selves. <br>
Sexuality and medical discourse. <br>
<b>Women and Welfare </b>3 <br>
The impact of welfare policy on women. <br>
The impact of women on welfare policy. <br>
Women as consumers of welfare. <br>
<b>Public History <br>
</b>How can women's history direct or inform modern media debates in
matters relating to women‟s health and welfare? <br>
How can women's history help inform current policy on women‟s health
and welfare? <br>
How well is women's health represented in archives and discussions on
accessibility to relevant records? <br>
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Please send a proposal of 250 words and a short biographical note to Sue
Hawkins (s.e.hawkins@kingston.ac.uk) or Nicola Phillips
(n.phillips@kingston.ac.uk). The <b>deadline </b>for the submission of
proposals is <b>16 January 2012</b>.<br>
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Dr. Margaretta Jolly<br>
CCE, Mantell Building Room 4b20<br>
University of Sussex<br>
Falmer, BN1 9RF<br>
<a href="mailto:m.jolly@sussex.ac.uk">m.jolly@sussex.ac.uk</a><br>
01273 873585<br>
<a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/16251" eudora="autourl">
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/16251</a><br>
Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research<br>
<a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/">
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/</a><br>
Sisterhood and After: The Women’s Liberation Oral History Project<br>
<a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/research/sisterhoodafter">
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/research/sisterhoodafter</a><br>
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The University's contact details are at
<a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/contactus" eudora="autourl">
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/contactus</a></font></blockquote></body>
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