Reproductive politics in France and Britain
Conference
5 September 2016, 19:30 - 7 September 2016, 17:00
GR06/07 Seminar Room, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP
This two-day conference brings together historians, demographers and other social scientists from France and Britain working in the field of reproductive politics.
In recent decades, scholars have explored the politics of reproduction in the twentieth century from different national perspectives. It is now well established under what circumstances and with which purposes laws regulating reproduction have been implemented. More recently, individual reproductive behaviours have been made central to historical understandings of long-term demographic change. Richly detailed and contextualized studies are becoming commonplace in the field. These have generated new insights and complicating too the linear narrative of reproductive emancipation that has dominated since the 1970s. While much has been learned about the legal, social and intimate aspects of reproduction in France and Britain, less has been done to understand the differences and similarities between these two countries.
Monday 5 September - CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road19.30 - 21.00
Film screening of Une affaire de femmes (1988), introduced by Fabrice Cahen (INED, Esopp (EHESS/CRH) France)
Tuesday 6 September - English Faculty, 9 West Road
8.45 - 9.15 Registration
9.15 - 9.30 Welcome and opening
9.30 - 11.00 Session 1: IVF, media and reproductive work
Chair: Professor Nick Hopwood (Cambridge)
Dr Katie Dow (Cambridge)
'Looking into the test tube: the on-screen birth of IVF'
Professor Laurence Tain (Lumière Lyon Lumière2)
'The world chain of reproductive work'
11.00 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 13.00 Session 2: Prevention through reproductive technologies
Chair: Professor Sarah Franklin (Cambridge)
Isabelle Ville (EHESS)
'Prenatal genetic diagnosis in France and Britain'
Dr Cathy Herbrand (De Montfort)
'How was the legalisation of mitochondrial donation possible in the UK? Bridging the recent and past debates'
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Session 3: Pregnancy, government and activism
Chair: Dr Lucy Delap (Cambridge)
Dr Fabrice Cahen (INED, Esopp (EHESS/CRH) France)
'Pregnancy: a matter of government and governmentality'
Dr Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Cambridge)
'The feminist appropriation of pregnancy testing in 1970s Britain'
15.30 - 16.00 Break
16.00 - 17.30 Keynote
Professor Simon Szreter (Cambridge)
Wednesday 7 September - English Faculty, 9 West Road
9.30 - 11.00 Session 4: Abortion, family planning and demography
Chair: Dr Jenny Bristow (Canterbury Christ Church)
Professor Sally Sheldon (Kent)
'The Abortion Act: a biography'
Professor Virginie De Luca Barrusse (IDUP, France)
'"Le syndrome de dénatalité"? Demographic issues in family planning debates (France 1950-1960)'
11.00 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 13.00 Session 5: Pregnancy, surveillance and childbirth
Chair: Professor Anne-Françoise Praz (Fribourg)
Dr Salim Al Gailani (Cambridge)
'Liberty, confidentiality and the surveillance of pregnancy in interwar Britain'
Marylène Vuille (UNIG, Switzerland)
'Teaching women to give birth: from the prevention of birthing difficulties to psychological analgesia (UK, France, 1930s–1950s)'
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Session 6: Contraception knowledge and public health
Chair: Dr Lesley Hall (Wellcome Library)
Dr Caroline Rusterholz (Cambridge)
'Transfer of contraceptive knowledge from England to France'
Dr Bibia Pavard (Panthéon-Assas University, CARISM, Paris)
'Let’s talk about it? Contraception from anti-conception propaganda to public health campaigns (France, 1950s-1980s)'
15.30 - 16.00 Break
16.00 - 17.00 Final discussion
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