This event is part of the Body, Self and Family seminar series on Gender, Subjectivity, and "Everyday Health" in the Post-1945 World. This session consists of the following papers:

• Stephanie Snow and Angela Whitecross (University of Manchester), The National Health Service and ‘Everyday Health’ in the UK since 1948
• Martin Moore (University of Exeter), ‘[I] guessed the conversation was only for female ears. I felt a little red under the collar and hid my face behind my newspaper’. Waiting for Everyday Healthcare in Post-War Britain: Gender, Class and Family in the GP Waiting Room, 1948-1975
• Gareth Millward (University of Warwick), Writing Everyday Life into Law: The ‘Household Duties Test’, Disabled Women, Social Security and Assumed Normality

Chair: Tracey Loughran (University of Essex)

To find out more about these papers, and about the seminar series, see the Body, Self and Family website here.

This seminar series runs from January-June 2021 and asks: What is the history of ‘everyday health’ in the postwar world, and where might we find it? Across six months, participants will explore the history of gender, selfhood, and health from multiple perspectives, examining how gender, alongside class, ‘race’, and sexuality, mediated experiences of health and wellbeing; interrogating the reasons for differences in gendered experiences in different regions of the world; critically assessing the concept of ‘everyday health’; and developing and sharing methodologies that allow us to write histories of subjectivity and embodiment from the bottom-up.

We aim to ensure that this seminar series is fully accessible. If you have additional needs, please contact us at admin@bodyselffamily.org and we will do our best to ensure that you are fully supported.

Participants will be emailed with joining information five days before the event.