Pozvánka
Česká asociace pro sociální antropologii
a
Masarykova česká sociologická společnost
ve spolupráci s
Etnologickým ústavem AV ČR, v.v.i.
a
Filozofickou fakultou Západočeské univerzity
Vás srdečně zvou na
148. GELLNEROVSKÝ SEMINÁŘ
Gellnerovský seminář založen Jiřím Musilem a Petrem Skalníkem v roce 1998
který se bude konat
ve čtvrtek 5. února 2015 od 16:30 hod.
v místnosti Havel (dříve Richter), vedlejší budova New York University v Praze
Malé náměstí 11, Praha 1 – Staré Město (1. posch., vchod z pasáže)
Vystoupí
Paula Michaels
Monash University, Austrálie
na téma
Lamaze: An International History
Zdeněk UHEREK,v.r., Alena MILTOVÁ,v.r., Luděk BROŽ,v.r., Daniela PĚNIČKOVÁ,v.r.
Dr. Paula Michaels
is a Senior Lecturer in history and international studies at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). A specialist in the history of medicine and health in the USSR and 2010 Guggenheim fellow, she is the author of numerous articles and two award-winning books: Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin’s Central Asia (2003) and Lamaze: An International History (2014). She is currently at work on a project about physician-activists in the global antinuclear movement.
Lamaze: An International History
How did an approach to natural childbirth advocated in the Soviet Union become a marker of feminist empowerment in the United States? Drawing on a wealth of archival research, Paula Michaels excavates the surprising history of the natural childbirth movement as a front in the Cold War. She traces the one the story of psychoprophylaxis, also known as the Lamaze method, from its origins in the USSR in the 1940s, to its dissemination in France in the 1950s and its popularisation in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. Finding inspiration in the insights of anthropologists of birth and paying particular attention to questions of gender and power, Michaels illuminates the historical, social, and political context sensitivity of this approach to natural childbirth in these varied national settings.