137 P - Women Making Scientific Knowledge

Friday, June 2, 2017: 1:45 PM-3:15 PM
RSVLT 106 (Hofstra University)
Chair:
Deborah Levine, Providence College
A Battle for Obstetrical Education: Male Medical Students and Midwives in Nineteenth-century Northern France
Morag Martin, SUNY at Brockport
Archives, Speculums, and Lasers: What the Birth of U.S. Gynecology can Teach Us About the Growing Popularity of Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery (FGCS)
Jessica Yvonne Neasbitt, University of California, Santa Cruz
From 'milk leg' to blood clotting: the importance of women in the development of early clotting theories, 1773-1822
Kate Grauvogel, Indiana University
Burn Notice: Lay Practitioners, Plastic Surgery, and the Forgotten Origins of the Chemical Peel
Kathryn Schweishelm, Freie Universität Berlin
Comment:
Deborah Levine, Providence College

Session Abstract

This panel explores various contributions women have made to science that have largely been ignored or forgotten. This panel also addresses the way science, in its development and practice, is gendered. One of the papers uses the practice of midwifery to analyze the tension between religion and female bodies and sexuality. Another paper reflects upon the way the development of Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery was used to place different types of value on different female bodies. Another focuses on the history of plastic surgery to analyze the way gender played a role in the perceived legitimacy of the field. Also discussed are audiometry and blood clotting theories.

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