... Poland history of gynecology Catholicism anti-abortion activism gender history National Science Center, Poland 2019/33/B/HS3/01068 In 1982, the Polish Ministry of Health and Social Security commissioned two short films on the preparation for childbirth and family life. The director of both films...

... was represented as distant, egoistic and violent, experts broadcast mixed messages about the effectiveness and usefulness of popular male contraceptive methods, some of which were at times utterly demonised. state-socialist Poland popular medical literature history of contraception gender history gynaecology...

..., I show what kind of historical protagonists are doctors. Holocaust public health Jewish history gender history ghettos In 1979, looking back at her imprisonment in Theresienstadt (Terezín in Czech; I use both terms synonymously), the former nurse Emilie Valentová remembered her boss...

...: [email protected] 2017 reproductive health obstetrics midwifery Mexico gender history law and medicine colonialism Abortion and reproductive health have not been absent from studies of medicine in Mexico. Yet Nora Jaffary’s ambitious project reframes this scholarship by examining the relationships...

..., Polish and Jewish midwives were transformed opens a window onto how racial classifications were enacted within the ‘private sphere’ of pregnancy and birth. midwives World War II occupied Poland gender history racial segregation After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, midwives were...

... more patients to the hospitals of the time. ² Finally, the topic of surgical nursing has also been relevant for gender history. Interestingly, the development of the field of surgical nursing occurred at the same time as the first women surgeons appeared in the operating rooms...

... of a wider trend across the country. Abstract The article reviews recent books on the cultural, social and political history of the Weimar Republic. Specific fields of enquiry have included gender history, where work on the history of abortion has challenged established narratives of emancipation. Another...

... a gendered concept, as will be demonstrated in this article. Shifts in women's and gender history are part of general shifts in historiography. Thus, the four topics selected here could also be topics for an investigation of other periods of modern history, or other countries. The same can be said...

.... There is an extended discussion of methodology, which highlights the benefits of a cross-disciplinary engagement for military history and gender history alike. It argues that such an approach is essential if we are to understand an institution that was of such ideological significance, and which was central...

... Grehan Esther country house hostess Guinness Arthur Edward Baron Ardilaun Guinness née White Olivia Lady Ardilaun Ireland Irish nineteenth century history of leisure social history cultural history gender history When we consider the situation of the human mind in nature, its limited plasticity...

... school Old Sturbridge Village public history women’s history activism childcare Our Bodies Ourselves Boston Women’s Health Book Collective socialist feminists environmental activism Gender & History ed Osterud et al History Workshop collective United Kingdom Freire Paul Nanticoke Valley...

... collecting female–female keepsake exchange sentimentalisation of friendships specimens Dashkova Princess Ekaterina Napoleon souvenir gender history material culture thing theory Grand Tour Walter Benjamin Susan Stewart Beverley Gordon connoisseurship eighteenth century ‘Having spent some time...

... Gender history Ecumenism Missionary works Fage, Cavalier and Marion most certainly experienced a major culture shock when they arrived in London from the Cévennes via Geneva. That they settled in west London suggests that their first contacts were among the privileged classes. ¹ The first...

...This book examines the intellectual and political production of women's history across time and space. Drawing on insights from scholars, it considers women's and gender history within national, imperial, and geographic contexts as well as the accomplishments, shortcomings, and future directions...

...This chapter traces the birth of professional women's and gender history in the United States amid the broader social, political, and intellectual currents of the 1960s. In particular, it examines four conceptual “turns” in women's and gender history, along with their influence on the practices...

... for women's and gender history in modern India. It begins with a discussion of how the writing of Indian women's history has been intertwined with both British colonialism and anticolonial nationalism. It then considers the consequences of nationalism and national liberation movements for the field of women's...

...This book showcases the transformations that the intellectual and political production of women's history has engendered across time and space. It considers the difference women's and gender history has made to, and within, national fields of study, and to what extent the wider historiography has...

... to this license, all rights are reserved. This chapter introduces the subject of the book, outlining the reasons why it is a significant subject for historical analysis. It summarizes the historiographic context of the study in relation to medical histories, gender histories, and social histories of the conflict...

... and articulates the book’s interventions in disciplines of African American history and women’s history and gender history. corruption police Democratic Party elections Gangbusters investigations La Guardia Fiorello morals laws policing New York Times Night Stick Valentine NYPD New York Police Department...