tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post5325499711684930492..comments2024-03-03T13:55:46.243-08:00Comments on Ambling Along the Aqueduct: Science, Speculation and Gendered NarrativesTimmi Duchamphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00673465487533328661noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post-27253154203613912962007-05-05T04:50:00.000-07:002007-05-05T04:50:00.000-07:00On gendering and biological processes and the need...On gendering and biological processes and the need for social and political changes in order to rethink certain narratives, there was an excellent article in <I>Social History of Medicine</I> a few years ago by M Worboys, about the regendering of gonorrohoea in the late C19th (from being something icky that bad women gave to men, to something that men gave to their wives, making them infertile), in which he makes a very plausible argument that it was not just all about the rise of bacteriology and the identification of causative organism, but also about changing narratives about gender relations (e.g. campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts).Lesley Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03137128342422073459noreply@blogger.com