{"id":79293,"date":"2025-02-21T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=79293"},"modified":"2025-02-19T17:52:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:52:55","slug":"79293","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=79293","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Women and Health in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic World (12\/2025, Funchal); by: 31.03.2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Intercontinental Cross-Currents Network; In\u00eas Tadeu, Univ. of Madeira and Julia Nitz, Martin Luther Univ. Halle-Wittenberg<\/strong> (Web)\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Time: 04.-06.12.2025
\nVenue: Univ. of Madeira, Madeira Island, Portugal
\nProposals by: 31.03.2025<\/p>\n

Notions of women\u2019s health in the long 19th century were part and parcel of transatlantic societies‘ gender politics. Therefore, it doesn\u2019t come as a surprise that foundational twentieth-century feminist scholars turned to questions of women\u2019s health in their critique of patriarchal power structures. In the 1970s and 1980s, researchers such as Caroll Smith-Rosenberg, in their so-called \u201cfeminist reconstruction of history,\u201d argued that we should study nineteenth-century health discourse in order to make apparent how the social role of women was constructed. This argument was based on the assumption that changes in social and cultural attitudes are made \u201cevident in the language of health\u201d (7). They believed that models of health and sickness showcased a plurality of notions of womanhood, i.e., they indicated what was considered personal shortcomings in women, what was construed as social problems, appropriate moral behaviour, women\u2019s citizenship roles, etc. Scholars started to dissect health concepts and their cultural environment to see what judgements and expectations ideas of health have conveyed (see Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America; 1986, 6-7). After a two-decade-long interest in issues of women and health, interest ebbed until more recently when the Covid-19 pandemic starkly highlighted the gendered and racialised norms and prejudices tied to notions of health. This global health crisis generated renewed interest in questions of women and health across many disciplines, including medicine, history, social science, cultural and literary studies, as well as queer and gender studies.
\nThis interdisciplinary conference contributes to the conversation by focusing on comparative transatlantic perspectives on women and health in the long nineteenth century. The organisers invite scholars and professionals from diverse fields to explore the intricate relationship between health discourses and concepts of womanhood, as well as the experiences and realities that women encountered, engaged in, resisted, or helped create.
\nThe organisers encourage cross-disciplinary studies and comparative transnational perspectives. Thus, the conference will address a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Read more and source … (Web)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Intercontinental Cross-Currents Network; In\u00eas Tadeu, Univ. of Madeira and Julia Nitz, Martin Luther Univ. Halle-Wittenberg (Web)\u00a0 Time: 04.-06.12.2025 Venue: Univ. of Madeira, Madeira Island, Portugal Proposals by: 31.03.2025 Notions of women\u2019s health in the long 19th century were part and parcel of transatlantic societies‘ gender politics. Therefore, it doesn\u2019t come as a surprise that foundational […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls-for-papers","category-networks","category-migration-2","category-topic_pflegecare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79293"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79303,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79293\/revisions\/79303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}