APHI and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies present: Wendy Kline on “The Emergence of the Hippie Midwife”
We are excited to announce that coming up Wednesday, October 26, at noon in room 504 of the History Department Building (226 Bay State Rd), Professor Wendy Kline (Purdue) will present her paper, “‘Psychedelic Birth: The Emergence of the Hippie Midwife.” The paper is a draft chapter from her book project for Oxford University Press.
Kline holds the Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine in the Department of History at Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, in 1998. Among numerous other publications, she is the author of Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women’s Health in the Second Wave (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (University of California Press, 2001).
Her current book project is entitled Coming Home: Medicine, Midwives, and the Transformation of Birth in Late-Twentieth-Century America. Based on interviews and archival records of midwives, doctors, and health organizations, this book will be the first in-depth, historical analysis of the home birth movement in the U.S.
Thanks to WGS for co-sponsoring this event!
