March 8, International Women’s Day 2022
The book is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in 1928 claiming space for women’s writers within a literary tradition dominated by men.
This article published in HCS-Manguinhos (vol.27 no.1 Jan./Mar. 2020) presents a partial historiographical review of the history of women, science, and medicine, specially a field of studies that intersects politically with feminism and has been written mostly by women.
In Women, male doctors, and female historians, published in the latest issue of Manguinhos (vol.27 Jan./Mar. 2020), historian Ana Paula Vosne Martins, profesor at Universidade Federal do Paraná, presents some of the most important works and approaches that marked this historiography with a focus on writings in the English language.
1987, University of California Press.
The article also describes the historical context in which this scholarship was produced, the topics that were defined, and the field’s theoretical references, sources, and research problems.
This historiography of women and gender established itself in the second half of the twentieth century. The topics covered by the literature reviewed in this article range from womens oppression throughout history, representations of the female body and the relations between medicine, science, and culture.
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Published in 1992, this is a study of women in Britain from the Puritan revolution of the mid-seventeenth century to the 1930s.
Published in 1992, this is a study of women in Britain from the Puritan revolution of the mid-seventeenth century to the 1930s
Las mujeres en HCS-Manguinhos – Una selección de artículos, en español y en inglés, de investigadoras sobre temas relacionados con la mujer.
Trabajo en la Argentina del siglo XX – Una breve entrevista con la historiadora Graciela Queirolo, autora del libro “Mujeres en las oficinas: Trabajo género y clase en el sector administrativo (Buenos Aires, 1910-1950)”. El libro analiza la experiencia profesional de dactilógrafas, taquígrafas-dactilógrafas y secretarias, cuya emergencia cambió la fisonomía de la ciudad, de los lugares de trabajo y de la organización familiar.
Medicalización del parto en el Perú (1900-1940) – Los profesores Jorge Lossio y Pilar Robledo (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) y Ruth Iguiñiz-Romero (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia) consideran que la autoridad dada por la ciencia a los médicos les permitió subordinar a las madres y desplazar a las parteras.
Labor, childbirth and infant mortality – This edition features two dossiers: the medicalization of childbirth, and child health and mortality.
First published in the late 1960s, it discusses different aspects of women health and sexuality.
Women’s reproductive health in early twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro – Cassia Roth, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, shows that elevated stillbirth and maternal mortality rates marked women’s reproductive years, despite official efforts to medicalize childbirth and increase access to clinical healthcare.
A dark reality – Cassia Roth, from the History Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, explains the connection between state policies towards reproduction in early-twentieth-century Brazil and the current situation in women’s reproductive health.
Lets talk about syphilis – HCSM have already published several articles about this curable and neglected disease. Today, we highlight three of them.
Aborto y abandono en Perú, 1946 – El ensayo da cuenta del proceso criminal para determinar los responsables de la muerte de Augusta García Platas tras un aborto clandestino en Ayacucho.
Feminism in the history of medicine – An interview with Dr Susan M. Reverby, Professor Emerita in Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College.
It demonstrates how cultural ideas about ‘proper’ feminine behavior have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity
Género, sanidad y colonialidad: la ‘mujer marroquí’ y la ‘mujer española’ en la política sanitaria de España en Marruecos, Isabel Jiménez-Lucena. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2006, vol.13, no.2.
The biomedicalisation of illegal abortion: the double life of misoprostol in Brazil, Silvia de Zordo. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2016, vol.23, no.1.
La protección a la maternidad de las trabajadoras en Argentina: aspectos legales y administrativos en la primera mitad del siglo XX, Carolina Biernat y Karina Ramacciotti, Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2011, vol.18, suppl.1
La tutela estatal de la madre y el niño en la Argentina: estructuras administrativas, legislación y cuadros técnicos (1936-1955). Carolina Biernat y Karina Ramacciotti. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2008, vol.15, no.2.
Parirás sin dolor: poder médico, género y política en las nuevas formas de atención del parto en la Argentina (1960-1980), Karina Felitti. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2011, vol.18, suppl.1.
Intersecciones en las configuraciones de la maternidad en la historia argentina, 1900-1946: registros médicos y culturales bajo la lupa, Karina Felitti. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2016, vol.23, no.1.
Cancer, women, and public health: the history of screening for cervical cancer, Ilana Löwy. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, July 2010, vol.17, suppl.1.
Morbimortalidad femenina en la Puna jujeña: potencialidad de la técnica autopsia verbal, Raquel Irene Drovetta. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2008, vol.15.
Género, sanidad y colonialidad: la ‘mujer marroquí’ y la ‘mujer española’ en la política sanitaria de España en Marruecos, Isabel Jiménez-Lucena . Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2006, vol.13, no.2.
Enfermería de salud pública, modernización y cooperación internacional: El proyecto de la Escuela Nacional de Enfermeras de Venezuela, 1936-1950, Hebe M. C. Vessuri. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2001, vol.8, no.3.
Eugenics, sterilization, and historical memory in the United States, Alexandra Minna Stern. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dec 2016, vol.23, suppl.1.
Madres y niños en las políticas del Servicio Nacional de Salud de Chile (1952-1964), María Soledad Zárate Campos y Lorena Godoy Catalán. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2011, vol.18, suppl.1.
Una perspectiva feminista de la historia de la medicina – Entrevista con la investigadora Teresa Ortiz-Gómez sobre los aportes del feminismo a la historia de la medicina.
