Julie Fairman, Bates Center, and Kathy Peiss, UPenn

Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, Seminar Series (Philadelphia, PA)

Tuesday, November 3, 2015, 5:00 pm EST

Time:12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

Location:Room 435, Floor 4, Claire Fagin Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA


Abstract: How has the development of women’s and gender history shaped the history of nursing? How have studies centered on nursing contributed to historical inquiry about women? These areas of research have evolved along parallel and sometimes intersecting tracks. Yet they do not engage in extensive dialogue with each other, separated by disciplinary traditions and institutional practices. Historians Julie Fairman and Kathy Peiss want to break down those barriers. In this seminar, they will start a conversation about how their fields developed and what insights they offer each other.


Bios:


Julie Fairman is a nurse historian whose work on the history of 20th Century health care represents a track record of consistent funding, including fellowships from the NLM, NEH and RWJ. Her work on the history of critical care earned her awards from the American Association of the History of Nursing and her first book, Critical Nursing: A History, received favorable reviews in the national and regional popular press and from reviewers in professional journals. Her most recent book is Making Room in the Clinic: Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care is in its second printing and recently out in paperback. She is currently the Director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, and is working on a history of the intersection of health policy and nurse practitioners in the United States from 1980 to the present


Kathy Peiss is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at Penn. Her teaching and research have focused on 20th century U.S. women’s and gender history, the history of sexuality, and modern American cultural history. Her publications include Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York; Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture, and Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style. She has also participated in a number of public history projects, including the documentary films “New York” and “Miss America.” She is currently writing a history of the large-scale missions of American libraries, scholars and the military to collect books, documents and other materials in the World War II years.