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The Department of History Colloquium and I-CYS present:
Birth Pangs: Medical and Cultural Constructions of Female Bodies and Labour Pain in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Canada
Guest Speaker: Dr. Whitney Wood (Birkbeck, University of London)
Day/Date: Friday, November 25, 2016
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Location: C-610
Whitney Wood is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History, Classics, and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. She received her PhD in History from Wilfrid Laurier University (part of the Tri-University Graduate Programme) in February 2016. She has published articles in the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, and the edited collections "Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and "Pain and Emotion in Modern History" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Her first book, Birth Pangs: Maternity, Medicine, and Feminine Delicacy in English Canada, 1867-1940, is under contract with McGill-Queen's University Press.
Contact:
Bev Garnett | bev.garnett@uleth.ca | (403) 380-1894
