Paige Donaghy
Biographic Data
| ID | 990289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paige Donaghy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paige |
| FAMILY NAME | Donaghy |
| SIGNATURE | DONAGHY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4425-2384 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830
Obstetric violence is a form of gendered violence experienced by pregnant and birthing people, particularly women, during medical care provided in the hospital, clinic or home. Recent scholarship has explored how obstetric violence and obstetric racism manifested historically, from post‐war Canada to colonial and postcolonial Mexico. Drawing on existing work and historical studies of domestic and sexual violence, this article argues that historia…
It’s Women who Suffer
In May 2024, the NSW State Parliament Select Committee Inquiry into Birth Trauma handed down a landmark report on birth trauma following a year-long inquiry. However, the Final Report omitted the term ‘obstetric violence', and the Committee refused to include a finding that some instances of birth trauma amounted to gender-based violence. This article grapples with the erasure of obstetric violence in what is otherwise a significant step towards …
Jennifer Evans, Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England
Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus
Birth Figures
The Secrets of the Placenta in European Anatomy and Midwifery, 1560–1700
Historians of medicine and generation have long demonstrated how the female body was conceptualized as a site of secrecy in early modern Europe. This essay explores one oft-overlooked organ of the female body—the placenta, which was considered by early modern anatomists to be a particularly challenging secret to uncover. Anatomists who investigated this organ discovered that it was largely absent from the ancients' accounts of their knowledge of …
Wind eggs and false conceptions
In early modern European natural philosophy and medicine, scholars encountered the problem of the “formless birth” in their studies into generation, alongside “monstrous” and “perfect” births. Such formless births included the hen’s egg, the unformed bear cub, and the human false conception – said to be shapeless lumps of moving flesh – and these types of conceptions influenced how natural philosophers, like William Harvey and Jan Baptiste van La…
Miscarriage, False Conceptions, and Other Lumps
Histories of early modern medicine and generation have tended to overlook the place that miscarriage, infertility, false conception and uterine diseases had in medical knowledge and women’s lives. By exploring English medical literature, casebooks, and letters, the study argues that a wide range of physical events, including miscarriage and false conception or mola, were experienced by women as a pregnancy, and then as the ‘loss of pregnancy’, or…
Before Onanism
Precarious futures
This article introduces the special issue of Continuum on ‘Precarious Futures: Cultural Studies in Pandemic Times’. The issue arises out of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference ‘Cultural Transformation’ held in December 2019, in Meanjin (Brisbane), on the land of the Jagera and Turrbal peoples. The articles in this special issue originate from this conference, and have thus been written and revised in the unusually difficult…
Disciplinary Perspectives on 'Thinking with' Sex
The following review forum comes out of a set of conversations held during a day-long workshop with Valerie Traub on her book, Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns (2016), at the Institute for Advan
Lost
The Secrets of the Placenta in European Anatomy and Midwifery, 1560–1700
Historians of medicine and generation have long demonstrated how the female body was conceptualized as a site of secrecy in early modern Europe. This essay explores one oft-overlooked organ of the female body—the placenta, which was considered by early modern anatomists to be a particularly challenging secret to uncover. Anatomists who investigated this organ discovered that it was largely absent from the ancients' accounts of their knowledge of …
Miscarriage, False Conceptions, and Other Lumps
Histories of early modern medicine and generation have tended to overlook the place that miscarriage, infertility, false conception and uterine diseases had in medical knowledge and women’s lives. By exploring English medical literature, casebooks, and letters, the study argues that a wide range of physical events, including miscarriage and false conception or mola, were experienced by women as a pregnancy, and then as the ‘loss of pregnancy’, or…
Before Onanism
Lost
Disciplinary Perspectives on 'Thinking with' Sex
The following review forum comes out of a set of conversations held during a day-long workshop with Valerie Traub on her book, Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns (2016), at the Institute for Advan
Before Onanism
Precarious futures
This article introduces the special issue of Continuum on ‘Precarious Futures: Cultural Studies in Pandemic Times’. The issue arises out of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference ‘Cultural Transformation’ held in December 2019, in Meanjin (Brisbane), on the land of the Jagera and Turrbal peoples. The articles in this special issue originate from this conference, and have thus been written and revised in the unusually difficult…
Wind eggs and false conceptions
In early modern European natural philosophy and medicine, scholars encountered the problem of the “formless birth” in their studies into generation, alongside “monstrous” and “perfect” births. Such formless births included the hen’s egg, the unformed bear cub, and the human false conception – said to be shapeless lumps of moving flesh – and these types of conceptions influenced how natural philosophers, like William Harvey and Jan Baptiste van La…
Miscarriage, False Conceptions, and Other Lumps
Histories of early modern medicine and generation have tended to overlook the place that miscarriage, infertility, false conception and uterine diseases had in medical knowledge and women’s lives. By exploring English medical literature, casebooks, and letters, the study argues that a wide range of physical events, including miscarriage and false conception or mola, were experienced by women as a pregnancy, and then as the ‘loss of pregnancy’, or…
The Secrets of the Placenta in European Anatomy and Midwifery, 1560–1700
Historians of medicine and generation have long demonstrated how the female body was conceptualized as a site of secrecy in early modern Europe. This essay explores one oft-overlooked organ of the female body—the placenta, which was considered by early modern anatomists to be a particularly challenging secret to uncover. Anatomists who investigated this organ discovered that it was largely absent from the ancients' accounts of their knowledge of …
Birth Figures
Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus
Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830
Obstetric violence is a form of gendered violence experienced by pregnant and birthing people, particularly women, during medical care provided in the hospital, clinic or home. Recent scholarship has explored how obstetric violence and obstetric racism manifested historically, from post‐war Canada to colonial and postcolonial Mexico. Drawing on existing work and historical studies of domestic and sexual violence, this article argues that historia…
It’s Women who Suffer
In May 2024, the NSW State Parliament Select Committee Inquiry into Birth Trauma handed down a landmark report on birth trauma following a year-long inquiry. However, the Final Report omitted the term ‘obstetric violence', and the Committee refused to include a finding that some instances of birth trauma amounted to gender-based violence. This article grapples with the erasure of obstetric violence in what is otherwise a significant step towards …
Jennifer Evans, Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England
Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (5 works) · History (4 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Pregnancy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)