The Research Network on „Military, War and Gender/Diversity“ (MKGD) Online Research Colloquium (Web)
Time: 26.10.2026, 4:00-6:00 pm CET (10:00 am-12:00 pm EST)
Venue: Virtual space – via Neubiberg
Pregnant bodies pose problems for war-making entities, especially the modern state. From public debates about abortion, contraception, and the birth rate to those making agonizing decisions about pregnancy, pregnancy during wartime showcases how such bodies unsettle the history of the Second World War. What might putting the pregnant body at the center of a such a history do to our understanding of this conflict? This talk offers an overview of how a focus on the pregnant body might do so by offering a case study of the British state’s decisions about special treatment for the pregnant (from evacuations to those serving in the armed forces) as well as first-hand reactions to wartime pregnancy.
Moderation: Karen Hagemann (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Susan R. Grayzel is Professor of History at Utah State Univ. She has been long interested in interdisciplinary and collaborative research analyzing the catastrophic wars of the 20th century at the human level. Her books include Women’s Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War (UNC, 1999); At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz (Cambridge, 2012) and The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War (Cambridge, 2022) as well as Women and the First World War (Routledge, revised 2nd edition, 2024)
Zoom URL: https://d9jao.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/OycZvHuFo1eQtrXW9HtW5WKd/ZHG1_HtFgLmY
Organisers: Anne-Laure Briatte (Sorbonne Univ.); Tanja Bührer (Univ. of Salzburg); Isabelle Deflers and Anke Fischer-Kattner (Univ. of the Bundeswehr Munich); Karen Hagemann (Univ. of North Carolina); Isabel Heinemann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Munich); Jasper Heinzen (Univ. of York)
Source: HSozKult (Web)

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