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From Physical Education to Wellness: The Racial Politics of Self-Care in American Women's Writing
From Physical Education to Wellness: The Racial Politics of Self-Care in American Women's Writing
Jess Libow
Visiting Assistant Professor in the Writing Program
Haverford College
Thursday, February 29
4:15-5:30 p.m. in Union 111, Haverford College
Far from a unifying alternative to historically white-male dominated biomedicine, the meaning of self-care has long been debated among women writers. Since the nineteenth-century, self-care discourses have been leveraged both to align white women with dominant power structures and to anchor Black and Indigenous women's inquiries into health disparities. This presentation traces this contentious history, focusing in particular on how debates about self-care intersect with the legacies of slavery and racial capitalism.
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Upcoming talks in this series
March 28 - "Science as Project: Scientific Herbal Medicine in Postcolonial Ghana" - Damien Droney, Health Studies, Haverford College
April 4 - "Is There a Politics of Somnolence?: Opioids, Unconsciousness, and Technologies of Non-Being" - Michael D'Arcy, Anthropology, Haverford College
April 25 - "Missing Mrs. Medicine: Tracing Doctors' Wives in the Archives of the History of Medicine" - Kelly O'Donnell, History, Bryn Mawr College