Medical Humanities | Modern Motherhood Seminar
| Title: | Modern Motherhood: Mothers and Daughters over the last 150 years |
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| Organised by: | Medical Humanities cluster |
| Speaker: | Professor Rima Apple, Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Description: | Traditionally, women’s experiences formed the basis of respected mothering practices which were seen as either part of a woman’s innate knowledge, or taught her by her own mother and other female relatives and friends. As scientific and technical expertise gained in prominence throughout the 19th century, increasingly women were told that they required scientific and medical knowledge in order to raise their children appropriately and healthfully. The ideal model now became the “scientific mother.” This paper analyzes the evolution of scientific motherhood from its earliest manifest in which women were expected to learn from modern scientific and medical knowledge, through the middle decades of the 20th century during which mothers were viewed as incapable of such learning and were expected to follow the directions of their physicians, through the end of the century when women demanded recognition of their capabilities. This paper traces out a number of the historically shifting power and gender relationships as women embraced, resisted, and redefined scientific motherhood. |
| Date and Time: | 16 August 2018, 4.00 - 5.30pm (refreshments to follow) |
| Venue: | The Hive TR+49 (LHS-02-03) |
| Register: | www.tinyurl.com/modernmotherhood2018 |