Women’s Health reading list

Women’s Health reading list

Posted by rhiandavies - Monday, 18 Dec 2023

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Explore the world of women’s health with our latest reading list covering topics from nursing practices and histories, to the changing landscape of women’s mental health in the 20th century.

Feminist mental health activism in England, c. 1968-95

Feminist mental health activism in England, c. 1968-95

Kate Mahoney

This book provides the first in-depth examination of feminist mental health activism in England from c.1968-1995. It explores how feminist activists initially rejected Freud before using psychoanalysis to enhance their politics; examines the development of feminist therapy; and charts the influence of feminism on national mental health charities.

Motherhood confined

Motherhood confined

Rachel E. Bennett

The book is the first extensive historical examination of motherhood in English prisons. It addresses the challenges mothers and babies have historically posed to prison systems not designed with their containment and the management of their health in mind.

Women's medicine

Women's medicine

Caroline Rusterholz

This book covers the role played by British female doctors in the medicalisation of birth control and family planning at the national and transnational level between 1920-70. Drawing on a wide range of archived and published medical materials, Rusterholz sheds light on the strategies British female doctors used to position themselves as experts and leaders in birth control and family planning research and practice.

Histories of nursing practice

Histories of nursing practice

Gerard Fealy, Christine E. Hallet, Susanne Dietz

Contains eleven landmark essays that explore the significance and meaning of nursing, with a wide geographic range that expands the existing literature on nursing work

Ellen N. La Motte

Ellen N. La Motte

Lea Williams

Using unexamined sources, including diaries and unpublished manuscripts, this biography traces the life and work of nurse, writer, and activist Ellen N. La Motte (1873-1961), examining how she developed as a professional in the early twentieth century.

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