Fwd: [Histmed] Politics and Practices: The History of Post-war Women's Health Conference 22-23 October 2010

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>Conference programme announcement (with apologies for cross-posting)
>
>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
>(emma.l.jones at manchester.ac.uk) and Dr Elizabeth Toon
>(elizabeth.toon at manchester.ac.uk).
>
>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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