African Feminist Theories

Paderborn University Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, NRW, Germany

Workshop African Feminist Theories organised and held by Ana Paula Coelho Rodrigues (Paderborn University/Center HWPS) in cooperation with Dr. Taleb Eli (Skyline University College UAE). This three-day workshop provides an […]

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New Voices Women’s Ideas in the History of Medicine

Irene Calà: Aspasia and the Others: Women and Medicine in Late Antiquity Medical texts from Late Antiquity are invaluable for our understanding of lost medical sources. This is particularly true […]

New Voices Women’s Ideas in the History of Medicine

Anna Gili: Women’s Health in Early Islamic Medical Works: Contextualising al-Maǧūsī’s "Kitāb al-malakī" Al-Maǧūsī, a Zoroastrian physician from the Fārs province, composed his Kitāb al-malakī during the second half of […]

New Voices Women’s Ideas in the History of Medicine

Shannon McHugh: Women’s Reproductive Lives in Renaissance Italian Lyric Poetry What can a sonnet teach us about the history of women’s reproductive bodies? For the early modern world, notions about […]

New Voices Women’s Ideas in the History of Medicine

Viktorya Vasilyan: A History of Breastfeeding: Its Iconography and Medical Importance During human history, infants were fed human milk for survival, either through breastfeeding by their mothers or adoptive breastfeeding […]

New Voices Women’s Ideas in the History of Medicine

Martina Guzzetti: Pregnant Women’s Wellbeing in Jane Sharp’s "The Midwives’ Book" (1671) Women’s health, wellbeing, and medical conditions have always been at the centre of gendered debates concerning, among other […]

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