Call for Proposals: Gender and Health: Histories
15/December/2009 08:52 AM
Proposals for papers are invited for an edited collection and symposium on
Gender and Health in History in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Gender and Health in History in the 19th and 20th centuries.
In recent years, regular and accurate reporting on the health status of men and women
has enabled us to see the extent to which gender "patterns how and why
people become ill, and how differently they are judged and judge themselves
in those processes" (Verbruge, 1990). But how, one might ask, has gender
been an "historical variable itself, one among several elements at play in
the formation of technologies of the body" (Green, 2008). Can we determine,
for example, how gender shaped the experience of health and sickness for
individuals in the 19th and 20th centuries? Contributors to the collection
will interrogate the gendered meanings of the wider national trends of
disease, accident, and death with the aim of producing a collection that
provides a richer understanding of gender and health in history and helps us
to better appreciate gender as a variable in understanding health today.
We seek papers that address the historically-specific health experiences of
women and men and analyze the impact of gender on health throughout the life
cycle. For example, how might childhood disability have been experienced
differently by boys and girls? When health education was delivered to
adolescents, did the messages for girls and boys differ, and if so, in what
ways? What dangers were adult women and men exposed to in the workplace, and
how did they differ? How common was Marie Stopes? view that men, as well as
women, experienced a "change of life"? How have views of appropriate body
weight played out differently for women and men? Were impotence in men and
frigidity in women regarded as similar or completely different conditions?
Has dementia had a gendered dimension in the past? By seeking answers to
these and other questions, this collection and symposium will seek to
understand the gendered "vocabulary of illness" (Verbrugge, 1985) of the
past.
The editors will review all proposals and make a selection based on quality
and relevance to the project's themes. Emerging scholars are encouraged to
submit proposals. Authors of accepted proposals will be invited to
contribute to the collection and to participate in the "Gender and Health:
Histories" symposium.
Please submit a 300-500 word abstract, working title, and brief CV by
January 30, 2010. Authors will be notified of acceptance before April 30,
2010, and completed manuscripts (6000-8000 words) will be due on Sep 15,
2010. The symposium will take place in May 2011.
Queries and/or completed proposals (in a Word document) should be sent to:
Tracy Penny Light
Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies/History
St. Jerome?s University/University of Waterloo
tplight@uwaterloo.ca
The Co-Editors for the collection are:
Wendy Mitchinson
Department of History
University of Waterloo
Barbara Brookes
Department of History
University of Otago, New Zealand
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has enabled us to see the extent to which gender "patterns how and why
people become ill, and how differently they are judged and judge themselves
in those processes" (Verbruge, 1990). But how, one might ask, has gender
been an "historical variable itself, one among several elements at play in
the formation of technologies of the body" (Green, 2008). Can we determine,
for example, how gender shaped the experience of health and sickness for
individuals in the 19th and 20th centuries? Contributors to the collection
will interrogate the gendered meanings of the wider national trends of
disease, accident, and death with the aim of producing a collection that
provides a richer understanding of gender and health in history and helps us
to better appreciate gender as a variable in understanding health today.
We seek papers that address the historically-specific health experiences of
women and men and analyze the impact of gender on health throughout the life
cycle. For example, how might childhood disability have been experienced
differently by boys and girls? When health education was delivered to
adolescents, did the messages for girls and boys differ, and if so, in what
ways? What dangers were adult women and men exposed to in the workplace, and
how did they differ? How common was Marie Stopes? view that men, as well as
women, experienced a "change of life"? How have views of appropriate body
weight played out differently for women and men? Were impotence in men and
frigidity in women regarded as similar or completely different conditions?
Has dementia had a gendered dimension in the past? By seeking answers to
these and other questions, this collection and symposium will seek to
understand the gendered "vocabulary of illness" (Verbrugge, 1985) of the
past.
The editors will review all proposals and make a selection based on quality
and relevance to the project's themes. Emerging scholars are encouraged to
submit proposals. Authors of accepted proposals will be invited to
contribute to the collection and to participate in the "Gender and Health:
Histories" symposium.
Please submit a 300-500 word abstract, working title, and brief CV by
January 30, 2010. Authors will be notified of acceptance before April 30,
2010, and completed manuscripts (6000-8000 words) will be due on Sep 15,
2010. The symposium will take place in May 2011.
Queries and/or completed proposals (in a Word document) should be sent to:
Tracy Penny Light
Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies/History
St. Jerome?s University/University of Waterloo
tplight@uwaterloo.ca
The Co-Editors for the collection are:
Wendy Mitchinson
Department of History
University of Waterloo
Barbara Brookes
Department of History
University of Otago, New Zealand
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