AContemporaryHistoryofFemaleSexualDysfunction,1960tothePresent
Conferences/SeminarPapers
2011: Presentation at the International Academy of Sex Research
December 2010: 'Psychogenic Etiology and Post-Feminist Affect in Female Sexual Dysfunction,
1960-Present', Affecting Feminism: Feminist Theory and the Question of Feeling, Newcastle
University.
October 2010: 'Female Sexual Dysfunction: Biological Psychiatry and Post-Feminism', Politics and
Practices: History of Post-War Women's Health, University of Manchester
July 2010: 'Female Sexual Dysfunction: Feminism and Mental Health, 1980-Present', Society for the
Social History of Medicine, Durham.
May 2010: 'Female Sexual Dysfunction and Biological Psychiatry', Work in Progress Workshop,
Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick.
May 2010: 'Writing Post-Feminist History: Female Sexual Dysfunction and Biological Psychiatry,
1960-Present. History and Philosophy of Science Departmental Seminar, University of Cambridge.
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April 2010: 'A Very Simple Answer: Causal Reasoning in the Last Twenty-Five Years of Peptic Ulcer',
History, Digestion, and Society: New Perspectives, Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland,
University College Dublin.
June 2009, ‘Technological Temptations and Sociological Sources: The Risks of Writing on Female
Sexual Dysfunction’, Half Past: History of the Recent Past Workshop, University of Warwick.
May 2009, ‘Postfeminism and Public Health in Technologies for Female Sexual Dysfunction’, History
and Philosophy of Medicine Seminar, University of Bristol.
March 2009, ‘Caught Between the Waves: Sexuality and the Self in Feminist Campaigns’, Where Are
We Now? Feminism and Heterosexuality, School of Advanced Study, University of London
November 2007, ‘The Discomforting Past of Peptic Ulcer: Histories of Psychosomatic Medicine and
H. Pylori’, Psy Studies Seminar (History of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Allied
Sciences), History and Philosophy of Science Department, Cambridge University
August 2004, ‘Green fingers or Pink Viagra? Female Sexual Dysfunction and Medicalisation in
Contemporary Medical Discourse’, Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease, St Catherine’s
College, Oxford University
August 2004, ‘Green fingers or Pink Viagra? Female Sexual Dysfunction and Medicalisation in
Contemporary Medical Discourse’, Postgraduate Workshop, Centre for Medical History, Exeter
University