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"How Thinking with "Gender" Changed the History and Practice of Medicine," Gina Morantz-Sanchez

Join us for a talk by Gina Morantz-Sanchez, followed by a roundtable of Doug Haynes, Sharon Block, Emily Baum, and Kavita Philip, moderated by Alice Fahs.

Morantz-Sanchez will discuss how thinking with gender changed how we think about history and ourselves, what women's historians did with the history of medicine, and how the practice of medicine itself has had to think differently about men's and women's bodies because of the sophisticated ways in which gender is now separated from the "sexed" body.

Professor Morantz-Sanchez, a Professor of History at the University of Michigan, began researching and teaching women's history in 1971, during the early stages of its development as a field. She also participated in helping to establish new approaches to the social history of medicine and her scholarship has contributed to the growth of each of these fields over the last 30 years. Her emphasis has always been on their interconnection as well as their relevance to mainstream approaches to history. She has also maintained a special interest in history of the family, childhood and adolescence and in cultural history in general. She has taught courses on the graduate and undergraduate level on gender, race, and class and stresses the importance of a multicultural perspective in the teaching and writing of history.

Her selected publications include In Her Own Words: Oral Histories of Women Physicians, Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine, and Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn of the Century Brooklyn.

She is currently working on a book project titled Ghetto Girls and Reforming Men: Love, Marriage, and the American Melting Pot, 1900-1930.