Nicole Bourbonnais
Biographic Data
| ID | 886402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Bourbonnais |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Bourbonnais |
| SIGNATURE | BOURBONNAIS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0206-9867 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A ‘Grande Causa’: Missionárias do planeamento familiar no mundo em descolonização
Este artigo rastreia as atividades de três trabalhadoras de campo internacionais que viajaram pelo mundo ao serviço do Fundo Pathfinder, com base nos EUA, nas décadas de 1950 e 1960, para distribuir contracetivos, promover a criação de clínicas de planeamento familiar e apoiar ativistas locais. Estas mulheres situavam o seu trabalho dentro de tradições mais longas de humanitarismo maternalista e do internacionalismo missionário cristão, enquanto …
The intimate labour of internationalism: Maternalist humanitarians and the mid-twentieth century family planning movement
This article moves past high politics and the most prominent activists to explore the daily, intimate practice of international movement building by mid-level fieldworkers within the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) during its first decade of existence (1952–62). It illustrates how fieldworkers and the IPPF’s practitioner-oriented newsletter Around the World attempted to bridge the ideological and geographic diversity of the fam…
The meaning(s) of global public health history
The papers in this special issue were prepared and discussed before the tragic covid-19 pandemic. However, their findings and discussions are equally relevant to the moment we are experiencing today, when the present and future of global health actors, institutions, and governance are at the same time more visible, relevant, and uncertain. In order to understand the local, national, and international challenges of contemporary global health, it i…
Population Control, Family Planning, and Maternal Health Networks in the 1960s/70s: Diary of an International Consultant
Over the past decade historians have explored the rise of the mid-twentieth-century population/family planning movement on both the international and the local levels. This article bridges the gap between these studies by exploring the work diaries of Dr. Adaline Pendleton ("Penny") Satterthwaite, a midlevel technical advisor who traveled to over two dozen countries for the Population Council from 1965 to 1974. Penny's diaries draw our attention …
Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica by Sasha Turner
Reviewed by: Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica by Sasha Turner Nicole Bourbonnais Sasha Turner. Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. xi + 316 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978–0–8122–4918–7). Sasha Turner’s superb book Contested Bodies skillfully examines how enslaved women’s reproductive potential became central to debat…
Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970
Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally altered the way people thought about and mobilized around reproduction. This book explores how a variety of actors translated this movement into practice on four islands (Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Bermuda) from the 1930s–70s. The process of decolonization during this period led to heightened clash…
Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery , by Juanita de Barros
Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery, by Juanita de Barros. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xii, 297 pp. $32.95 US (paper). This fascinating study opens with the powerful imagery of a homeless woman delivering a child in a mule pen in St. George parish, Barbados in 1893. As De Barros notes, this woman's story comes to us filtered through the lens of T. Law Gaskin, a physi…
Dangerously Large: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Debate over Birth Control in Jamaica
In the late 1930s, following a massive labor rebellion on the island, a group of middle- and upper-class Jamaicans launched a campaign to spread access to modern birth control technology to the working classes, leading to the establishment of the first birth control clinic in Kingston in March of 1939. This paper analyzes the debate that arose as a result of these activities during this period, focusing on the ways concerns surrounding "over-popu…
Colette et la liberté d'écrire. Une luxueuse intertextualité
Riche en citations, renvois et allusions littéraires de toutes sortes, l'oeuvre semi-autobiographique de Colette dépasse le simple vécu pour opérer une véritable mise en scène de ce luxueux excédent qu'est l'écriture avec son art et ses artifices. L'écrivaine met en circulation l'objet-écriture doté d'une valeur qu'il s'agit de réinvestir et de faire fructifier. Empruntant et transformant, Colette exploite le capital-texte qui s'enrichit progress…
Dangerously Large: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Debate over Birth Control in Jamaica
In the late 1930s, following a massive labor rebellion on the island, a group of middle- and upper-class Jamaicans launched a campaign to spread access to modern birth control technology to the working classes, leading to the establishment of the first birth control clinic in Kingston in March of 1939. This paper analyzes the debate that arose as a result of these activities during this period, focusing on the ways concerns surrounding "over-popu…
The meaning(s) of global public health history
The papers in this special issue were prepared and discussed before the tragic covid-19 pandemic. However, their findings and discussions are equally relevant to the moment we are experiencing today, when the present and future of global health actors, institutions, and governance are at the same time more visible, relevant, and uncertain. In order to understand the local, national, and international challenges of contemporary global health, it i…
Colette et la liberté d'écrire. Une luxueuse intertextualité
Riche en citations, renvois et allusions littéraires de toutes sortes, l'oeuvre semi-autobiographique de Colette dépasse le simple vécu pour opérer une véritable mise en scène de ce luxueux excédent qu'est l'écriture avec son art et ses artifices. L'écrivaine met en circulation l'objet-écriture doté d'une valeur qu'il s'agit de réinvestir et de faire fructifier. Empruntant et transformant, Colette exploite le capital-texte qui s'enrichit progress…
Dangerously Large: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Debate over Birth Control in Jamaica
In the late 1930s, following a massive labor rebellion on the island, a group of middle- and upper-class Jamaicans launched a campaign to spread access to modern birth control technology to the working classes, leading to the establishment of the first birth control clinic in Kingston in March of 1939. This paper analyzes the debate that arose as a result of these activities during this period, focusing on the ways concerns surrounding "over-popu…
Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery , by Juanita de Barros
Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery, by Juanita de Barros. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xii, 297 pp. $32.95 US (paper). This fascinating study opens with the powerful imagery of a homeless woman delivering a child in a mule pen in St. George parish, Barbados in 1893. As De Barros notes, this woman's story comes to us filtered through the lens of T. Law Gaskin, a physi…
Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970
Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally altered the way people thought about and mobilized around reproduction. This book explores how a variety of actors translated this movement into practice on four islands (Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Bermuda) from the 1930s–70s. The process of decolonization during this period led to heightened clash…
Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica by Sasha Turner
Reviewed by: Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica by Sasha Turner Nicole Bourbonnais Sasha Turner. Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. xi + 316 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978–0–8122–4918–7). Sasha Turner’s superb book Contested Bodies skillfully examines how enslaved women’s reproductive potential became central to debat…
Population Control, Family Planning, and Maternal Health Networks in the 1960s/70s: Diary of an International Consultant
Over the past decade historians have explored the rise of the mid-twentieth-century population/family planning movement on both the international and the local levels. This article bridges the gap between these studies by exploring the work diaries of Dr. Adaline Pendleton ("Penny") Satterthwaite, a midlevel technical advisor who traveled to over two dozen countries for the Population Council from 1965 to 1974. Penny's diaries draw our attention …
The meaning(s) of global public health history
The papers in this special issue were prepared and discussed before the tragic covid-19 pandemic. However, their findings and discussions are equally relevant to the moment we are experiencing today, when the present and future of global health actors, institutions, and governance are at the same time more visible, relevant, and uncertain. In order to understand the local, national, and international challenges of contemporary global health, it i…
The intimate labour of internationalism: Maternalist humanitarians and the mid-twentieth century family planning movement
This article moves past high politics and the most prominent activists to explore the daily, intimate practice of international movement building by mid-level fieldworkers within the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) during its first decade of existence (1952–62). It illustrates how fieldworkers and the IPPF’s practitioner-oriented newsletter Around the World attempted to bridge the ideological and geographic diversity of the fam…
A ‘Grande Causa’: Missionárias do planeamento familiar no mundo em descolonização
Este artigo rastreia as atividades de três trabalhadoras de campo internacionais que viajaram pelo mundo ao serviço do Fundo Pathfinder, com base nos EUA, nas décadas de 1950 e 1960, para distribuir contracetivos, promover a criação de clínicas de planeamento familiar e apoiar ativistas locais. Estas mulheres situavam o seu trabalho dentro de tradições mais longas de humanitarismo maternalista e do internacionalismo missionário cristão, enquanto …
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (2 works) · Humanities (2 works)