Jennifer Crane
Biographic Data
| ID | 5122934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Crane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Crane |
| SIGNATURE | CRANE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3926-3599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lively and Unstable Implosions
This article is a collaborative piece, written between a group of geographers and artists. Together, we explore an “ad-hoc archive” of extraordinary and everyday objects associated with reproduction, broadly conceived. Some objects are directly or indirectly aimed at enhancing reproductive health or well-being, others at arresting or enhancing fertility, others still at expanding notions of reproduction beyond the genetic or biological. Objects a…
Charity and children’s hospitals—exceptionalism, experiences and welfare
No abstract available
The Construction and Politics of the ‘Birth Experience’ in Britain, 1948–93
A new concept of childbirth ‘experience’ emerged in late twentieth-century Britain, crafted by an erratic yet powerful mesh of interest groups. Experience is a powerful and malleable concept, that has been mobilised in different ways over time. In this case study, discussions of ‘experiencing’ childbirth were first the grounding for a culture of complaint, and birthing people were typically spoken for. In later years, to ‘experience’ childbirth w…
Fluid modernities
Birthing pools are a common feature of maternity units across Europe and North America, and in home birth practice. Despite their prevalence and popularity, these blue or white, often bulky plastic objects have received minimal empirical or theoretical analysis. This article attends to the emergence, design and meaning of such birthing pools, with a focus on the UK in the 1980s and 1990s. Across spheres of media, political and everyday debate, th…
Agents of Change? Families, Welfare and Democracy in Mid-to-Late Twentieth-Century Europe
Families have always been vulnerable. They have long been torn apart by the mass migrations of warfare, the oppression of minority groups, the closure of international borders and the refugee crises governed ‘from above’. Families have also always been powerful symbols. Nationalist–populist movements have capitalised on fears about familial decline and liberal democracies have built moralistic views of the family into their welfare systems. Yet, …
Britain and Europe's Gifted Children in the Quests for Democracy, Welfare and Productivity, 1970–1990
Policy, voluntary, psychological and educational interest in gifted children emerged across Europe in the early twentieth century but surged dramatically in the 1970s and 1980s. This article explores the transnational voluntary circles hoping that gifted youth would bring peace and liberal democracy across Europe in these years. It analyses, also, how such work came into conflict with the expectations of conservative press in Britain: that gifted…
Retracted - Agents of Change? Families, Welfare and Democracy in Mid-to-Late Twentieth Century Europe
This special issue argues that historical work must take ‘the family’ seriously as an active participant in shaping historical change. The issue offers seven case studies from across the North to South and East to West of Europe, ranging from the 1940s until the present, and looking across authoritarian, liberal democratic, communist and fascistic systems. In all case studies, authors look ‘from below’ to show how individuals thought of themselve…
Gifted Children, Youth Culture, and Popular Individualism in 1970s and 1980s Britain
This article examines a niche space: youth clubs created by small voluntary organizations for 'gifted children' in 1970s and 1980s Britain. It asks how individualism shaped everyday life and demonstrates how youth culture was much broader than just the permissiveness that dominates the literature. Gifted children are currently missing from accounts of modern Britain, which focus on mainstream educational categories. Yet, including them in our ana…
Mapping the moral geographies of education
Mapping the moral geographies of education: character, citizenship and values Sarah Mills." Children's Geographies, 20(2), pp. 251–252
Sources and Resources‘The NHS … Should not be Condemned to the History Books’
This article explores the public engagement work of the Cultural History of the National Health Service (NHS) project, conducted at the University of Warwick between 2016 and 2019 and aiming to explore the meanings attached to Britain’s NHS over its 70-year history. The article situates public engagement as a critical methodology for social historians of medicine, exploring how events deepened this project’s understandings of post-war welfare, ch…
Analyse me
The poem Analyse Me evolved from my desire to understand where and how the creative fitted into the scheme of military veteran mental health treatments in Australia. In 2016, as an Australian Army veteran and a creative writer, I undertook to conduct craft of writing workshops for veterans. However, I found creative arts, in all modes, were not as widely incorporated into treatments and research as I thought. The poem is a creative response to my…
Save our NHS’
This article examines activism in defence of the National Health Service (NHS), which emerges in the 1960s to defend local hospitals from closure. From the mid-1980s, a new form of campaigning developed, which sought to protect the Service nationally. Tracing this campaigning illuminates, first, that small groups played a significant role in negotiating political change, and in contributing to cultural change which, in turn, has become politicall…
Rob Boddice, The History of Emotions
In recent years, historians of emotion have founded new research centres, conferences and book series. For Rob Boddice, key claims underlie what may well be an ‘emotional turn’: that emotions change over time and cause events, and that they are key to understanding histories of the biocultural human, morality, virtue and ethics. Intervening as this exciting and dynamic field develops, Boddice’s book provides a rich and thorough summary and analys…
The bones tell a story the child is too young or too frightened to tell’
This article traces the emergence of child abuse as a medical concern in post-war Britain and America. In the early 1960s American paediatricians and radiologists defined the 'battered child syndrome' to characterise infants subjected to serious physical abuse. In the British context, paediatricians and radiologists, but also dermatologists and ophthalmologists, drew upon this work and sought to identify clear diagnostic signs of child maltreatme…
Painful Times
In July 1985 Steve and Susan Amphlett established Parents Against Injustice (PAIN) to support and represent parents falsely accused of child abuse. The Amphletts ran the organization from their own home, and struggled to gain funding, before closing PAIN in 1999. PAIN was to an extent a reflection of the 'new politics' of identity and lifestyle, concurrent with the rise of New Social Movements, as falsely accused parents utilized communication te…
Early Autism Detection
Autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) present numerous challenges for early diagnosis and intervention. Recent research has concentrated on identifying symptoms of ASD in infants and toddlers. This article examines the feasibility of detecting ASD in infants and toddlers using early behaviors related to ASD and the impact that recent government policy changes and professional guidelines for family practitioners and pediatricians have had on early scr…
The penumbra of religious discourse.
The penumbra of religious discourse
Painful Times
In July 1985 Steve and Susan Amphlett established Parents Against Injustice (PAIN) to support and represent parents falsely accused of child abuse. The Amphletts ran the organization from their own home, and struggled to gain funding, before closing PAIN in 1999. PAIN was to an extent a reflection of the 'new politics' of identity and lifestyle, concurrent with the rise of New Social Movements, as falsely accused parents utilized communication te…
Save our NHS’
This article examines activism in defence of the National Health Service (NHS), which emerges in the 1960s to defend local hospitals from closure. From the mid-1980s, a new form of campaigning developed, which sought to protect the Service nationally. Tracing this campaigning illuminates, first, that small groups played a significant role in negotiating political change, and in contributing to cultural change which, in turn, has become politicall…
Retracted - Agents of Change? Families, Welfare and Democracy in Mid-to-Late Twentieth Century Europe
This special issue argues that historical work must take ‘the family’ seriously as an active participant in shaping historical change. The issue offers seven case studies from across the North to South and East to West of Europe, ranging from the 1940s until the present, and looking across authoritarian, liberal democratic, communist and fascistic systems. In all case studies, authors look ‘from below’ to show how individuals thought of themselve…
The bones tell a story the child is too young or too frightened to tell’
This article traces the emergence of child abuse as a medical concern in post-war Britain and America. In the early 1960s American paediatricians and radiologists defined the 'battered child syndrome' to characterise infants subjected to serious physical abuse. In the British context, paediatricians and radiologists, but also dermatologists and ophthalmologists, drew upon this work and sought to identify clear diagnostic signs of child maltreatme…
Early Autism Detection
Autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) present numerous challenges for early diagnosis and intervention. Recent research has concentrated on identifying symptoms of ASD in infants and toddlers. This article examines the feasibility of detecting ASD in infants and toddlers using early behaviors related to ASD and the impact that recent government policy changes and professional guidelines for family practitioners and pediatricians have had on early scr…
The penumbra of religious discourse.
The penumbra of religious discourse
Early Autism Detection
Autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) present numerous challenges for early diagnosis and intervention. Recent research has concentrated on identifying symptoms of ASD in infants and toddlers. This article examines the feasibility of detecting ASD in infants and toddlers using early behaviors related to ASD and the impact that recent government policy changes and professional guidelines for family practitioners and pediatricians have had on early scr…
The bones tell a story the child is too young or too frightened to tell’
This article traces the emergence of child abuse as a medical concern in post-war Britain and America. In the early 1960s American paediatricians and radiologists defined the 'battered child syndrome' to characterise infants subjected to serious physical abuse. In the British context, paediatricians and radiologists, but also dermatologists and ophthalmologists, drew upon this work and sought to identify clear diagnostic signs of child maltreatme…
Painful Times
In July 1985 Steve and Susan Amphlett established Parents Against Injustice (PAIN) to support and represent parents falsely accused of child abuse. The Amphletts ran the organization from their own home, and struggled to gain funding, before closing PAIN in 1999. PAIN was to an extent a reflection of the 'new politics' of identity and lifestyle, concurrent with the rise of New Social Movements, as falsely accused parents utilized communication te…
Analyse me
The poem Analyse Me evolved from my desire to understand where and how the creative fitted into the scheme of military veteran mental health treatments in Australia. In 2016, as an Australian Army veteran and a creative writer, I undertook to conduct craft of writing workshops for veterans. However, I found creative arts, in all modes, were not as widely incorporated into treatments and research as I thought. The poem is a creative response to my…
Save our NHS’
This article examines activism in defence of the National Health Service (NHS), which emerges in the 1960s to defend local hospitals from closure. From the mid-1980s, a new form of campaigning developed, which sought to protect the Service nationally. Tracing this campaigning illuminates, first, that small groups played a significant role in negotiating political change, and in contributing to cultural change which, in turn, has become politicall…
Rob Boddice, The History of Emotions
In recent years, historians of emotion have founded new research centres, conferences and book series. For Rob Boddice, key claims underlie what may well be an ‘emotional turn’: that emotions change over time and cause events, and that they are key to understanding histories of the biocultural human, morality, virtue and ethics. Intervening as this exciting and dynamic field develops, Boddice’s book provides a rich and thorough summary and analys…
Sources and Resources‘The NHS … Should not be Condemned to the History Books’
This article explores the public engagement work of the Cultural History of the National Health Service (NHS) project, conducted at the University of Warwick between 2016 and 2019 and aiming to explore the meanings attached to Britain’s NHS over its 70-year history. The article situates public engagement as a critical methodology for social historians of medicine, exploring how events deepened this project’s understandings of post-war welfare, ch…
Mapping the moral geographies of education
Mapping the moral geographies of education: character, citizenship and values Sarah Mills." Children's Geographies, 20(2), pp. 251–252
Britain and Europe's Gifted Children in the Quests for Democracy, Welfare and Productivity, 1970–1990
Policy, voluntary, psychological and educational interest in gifted children emerged across Europe in the early twentieth century but surged dramatically in the 1970s and 1980s. This article explores the transnational voluntary circles hoping that gifted youth would bring peace and liberal democracy across Europe in these years. It analyses, also, how such work came into conflict with the expectations of conservative press in Britain: that gifted…
Retracted - Agents of Change? Families, Welfare and Democracy in Mid-to-Late Twentieth Century Europe
This special issue argues that historical work must take ‘the family’ seriously as an active participant in shaping historical change. The issue offers seven case studies from across the North to South and East to West of Europe, ranging from the 1940s until the present, and looking across authoritarian, liberal democratic, communist and fascistic systems. In all case studies, authors look ‘from below’ to show how individuals thought of themselve…
Gifted Children, Youth Culture, and Popular Individualism in 1970s and 1980s Britain
This article examines a niche space: youth clubs created by small voluntary organizations for 'gifted children' in 1970s and 1980s Britain. It asks how individualism shaped everyday life and demonstrates how youth culture was much broader than just the permissiveness that dominates the literature. Gifted children are currently missing from accounts of modern Britain, which focus on mainstream educational categories. Yet, including them in our ana…
Agents of Change? Families, Welfare and Democracy in Mid-to-Late Twentieth-Century Europe
Families have always been vulnerable. They have long been torn apart by the mass migrations of warfare, the oppression of minority groups, the closure of international borders and the refugee crises governed ‘from above’. Families have also always been powerful symbols. Nationalist–populist movements have capitalised on fears about familial decline and liberal democracies have built moralistic views of the family into their welfare systems. Yet, …
The Construction and Politics of the ‘Birth Experience’ in Britain, 1948–93
A new concept of childbirth ‘experience’ emerged in late twentieth-century Britain, crafted by an erratic yet powerful mesh of interest groups. Experience is a powerful and malleable concept, that has been mobilised in different ways over time. In this case study, discussions of ‘experiencing’ childbirth were first the grounding for a culture of complaint, and birthing people were typically spoken for. In later years, to ‘experience’ childbirth w…
Fluid modernities
Birthing pools are a common feature of maternity units across Europe and North America, and in home birth practice. Despite their prevalence and popularity, these blue or white, often bulky plastic objects have received minimal empirical or theoretical analysis. This article attends to the emergence, design and meaning of such birthing pools, with a focus on the UK in the 1980s and 1990s. Across spheres of media, political and everyday debate, th…
Charity and children’s hospitals—exceptionalism, experiences and welfare
No abstract available
Lively and Unstable Implosions
This article is a collaborative piece, written between a group of geographers and artists. Together, we explore an “ad-hoc archive” of extraordinary and everyday objects associated with reproduction, broadly conceived. Some objects are directly or indirectly aimed at enhancing reproductive health or well-being, others at arresting or enhancing fertility, others still at expanding notions of reproduction beyond the genetic or biological. Objects a…
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (8 works) · Welfare (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)