Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
Title Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century PDF eBook
Author Jennifer Evans
Publisher Springer
Pages 254
Release 2016-12-31
Genre History
ISBN 331944168X

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This multi-disciplinary collection brings together work by scholars from Britain, America and Canada on the popular, personal and institutional histories of pregnancy. It follows the process of reproduction from conception and contraception, to birth and parenthood. The contributors explore several key themes: narratives of pregnancy and birth, the patient-consumer, and literary representations of childbearing. This book explores how these issues have been constructed, represented and experienced in a range of geographical locations from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Crossing the boundary between the pre-modern and modern worlds, the chapters reveal the continuities, similarities and differences in understanding a process that is often, in the popular mind-set, considered to be fundamental and unchanging.

Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793–1912

Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793–1912
Title Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793–1912 PDF eBook
Author Michael Brown
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 325
Release 2022-10-20
Genre History
ISBN 1108834841

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An innovative analytical account of the changing place of emotions in British surgery in the long nineteenth century.

Men and masculinities in modern Britain

Men and masculinities in modern Britain
Title Men and masculinities in modern Britain PDF eBook
Author Matt Houlbrook
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 306
Release 2024-01-16
Genre History
ISBN 1526174685

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Men and masculinities provides an engaging, accessible and provocative introduction to histories of masculinity for all readers interested in contemporary gender politics. The book offers a critical overview of ongoing historiographical debates and the historical making of men’s lives and identities and ideas of masculinity between the 1890s and the present day. In setting out a new agenda for the field, it makes an ambitious argument for the importance of writing histories which are present-centred and politically engaged. This means that the book engages head-on with ferocious debates about men’s social position and the status of masculinity in contemporary public life. In establishing a critical genealogy for the proliferation of this crisis talk, it sets out new ways of understanding how men’s lives and ideas of masculinity have changed over time while patriarchy and male power have persisted.

Payment and philanthropy in British healthcare, 1918–48

Payment and philanthropy in British healthcare, 1918–48
Title Payment and philanthropy in British healthcare, 1918–48 PDF eBook
Author George Campbell Gosling
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 137
Release 2017-03-17
Genre History
ISBN 1526114348

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. At a time when payment is claiming a greater place than ever before within the NHS, this book provides the first in-depth investigation of the workings, scale and meaning of payment in British hospitals before the NHS. There were only three decades in British history when it was the norm for patients to pay the hospital; those between the end of the First World War and the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948. Payment played an important part in redefining rather than abandoning medical philanthropy, based on class divisions and the notion of financial contribution as a civic duty. With new insights on the scope of private medicine and the workings of the means test in the hospital, as well as the civic, consumer and charitable meanings associated with paying the hospital, Gosling offers a fresh perspective on healthcare before the NHS and welfare before the welfare state.

Sexuality and Consumption

Sexuality and Consumption
Title Sexuality and Consumption PDF eBook
Author Mario Keller
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 344
Release 2022-08-01
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 3110747782

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The volumes in the series Werbung - Konsum - Geschichte investigate advertising, marketing, consumerism, and material culture both past and present by taking perspectives from the humanities, the social sciences, cultural studies, communication studies, and integrative scholarship. The series' editorial team aims to promote productive discursive and interdisciplinary exchange, and to provide fresh impetus for further research into these areas. Editorial board: Reinhild Kreis, Holger Schramm und Guido Zurstiege.

Women and the Irish Revolution

Women and the Irish Revolution
Title Women and the Irish Revolution PDF eBook
Author Linda Connolly
Publisher Merrion Press
Pages 339
Release 2020-11-23
Genre History
ISBN 1788551559

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The narrative of the Irish revolution as a chronology of great men and male militarism, with women presumed to have either played a subsidiary role or no role at all, requires reconsideration. Women and feminists were extremely active in Irish revolutionary causes from 1912 onwards, but ultimately it was the men as revolutionary ‘leaders’ who took all the power, and indeed all the credit, after independence. Women from different backgrounds were activists in significant numbers and women across Ireland were profoundly impacted by the overall violence and tumult of the era, but they were then relegated to the private sphere, with the memory of their vital political and military role in the revolution forgotten and erased. Women and the Irish Revolution examines diverse aspects of women’s experiences in the revolution after the Easter Rising. The complex role of women as activists, the detrimental impact of violence and social and political divisions on women, the role of women in the foundation of the new State, and dynamics of remembrance and forgetting are explored in detail by leading scholars in sociology, history, politics, and literary studies. Important and timely, and featuring previously unpublished material, this book will prompt essential new public conversations on the experiences of women in the Irish revolution.

Spiritual Wounds

Spiritual Wounds
Title Spiritual Wounds PDF eBook
Author Síobhra Aiken
Publisher Merrion Press
Pages 381
Release 2022-03-01
Genre History
ISBN 1788551672

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This book challenges the widespread scholarly and popular belief that the Irish Civil War (1922–1923) was followed by a ‘traumatic silence’. It achieves this by opening an alternative archive of published testimonies which were largely produced in the 1920s and 1930s; testimonies were written by pro- and anti-treaty men and women, in both English and Irish. Nearly all have eluded sustained scholarly attention to date. However, the act of smuggling private, painful experience into the public realm, especially when it challenged official memory making (or even forgetting), demanded the cautious deployment of self-protective narrative strategies. As a result, many testimonies from the Irish Civil War emerge in non-conventional, hybridised and fictionalised forms of life writing. This book re-introduces a number of these testimonies into public debate. It considers contemporary understandings of mental illness and how a number of veterans – both men and women – self-consciously engaged in projects of therapeutic writing as a means to ‘heal’ the ‘spiritual wounds’ of civil war. It also outlines the prevalence of literary representations of revolutionary sexual violence, challenging the assumptions that sexual violence during the Irish revolution was either ‘rare’ or ‘hidden’.