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Chapter 8: Daisy Payling, ‘Queering the agony aunt: reusing and adapting a public engagement activity for different audiences’ - beautiful set of reflections on researcher positionality in public engagement

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First up in Part III, Mass Media & Networks of Communication: Whitney Wood 'Thirty years behind England'? Framing 'natural' childbirth in postwar Canada - draws on magazines & letters to understand women’s engagement with natural childbirth

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Chapter 10: Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) 'I started a new life when I joined Gemma': disability, community, and sexuality in Gemma newsletters, 1978-2000 - looks at how disabled women redefined disability, built community, and embraced sexuality

Chapter 11: Dr Fabiola Creed, Talk shows and 'tanorexia': motherhood and 'sunbed addiction' on British television in the 1990s - innovative use of televisual sources to show how tanning was framed as a ‘problem’ of gender & class

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Chapter 12: Louise Morgan, 'Having been there . I know how hard it is': relatability and ordinariness in twenty-first century British clean eating

First up in Part IV: Subjectivity & intersubjectivity - Hannah Froom, Girlhood menstrual management and the 'culture of concealment' in postwar Britain - connects Mass Observation writings to cultural discourse to understand how girls felt about menstruation

Another open access one - link here & first page taster below (also, it’s Hannah’s first publication & it’s phenomenal!): doi.org/10.7765/978152…

Chapter 14: Rosie Gahnstrom LucyRobinson & Rachel Thomson, Is sex good for you? Risk, reward, and responsibility for young women in the late 1980s - conversations about sex & pleasure across moments in time

Chapter 15: Kate Mahoney, 'What your generation probably don't understand is ...': exploring intergenerational dynamics in oral history - how generational perceptions of subjectivity inform interview dynamics

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Chapter 16: Tracey Loughran, ‘Cultivating vulnerability: power and the emotional ethics of oral history practice beyond the interview’

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Last but not least: Carol Tulloch, ‘… and breathe: style narratives at home March 2020-March 2021’ - beautiful chapter on self-care in difficult times

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Congratulations to Dr Karissa Patton @karissapatton, who has received a Wellcome Early Career Award for her research into Reproductive Justice, Healthcare & History. 🎉 Further info: buff.ly/3Z4xxg8