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Anniversaries and Special Events , Periodicals as Topic , Periodicals as Topic/history , Periodicals as Topic/trends , Humans , Physiology/historySubject(s)
History of Dentistry , United Kingdom , Humans , Periodicals as Topic/history , History, 20th CenturySubject(s)
Periodicals as Topic , Humans , Periodicals as Topic/history , United Kingdom , History, 21st CenturySubject(s)
Psychiatry , Sexual and Gender Minorities , Social Stigma , Female , Humans , Male , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Sexual and Gender Minorities/history , Sexual and Gender Minorities/legislation & jurisprudence , United States , History, 19th Century , Periodicals as Topic/ethics , Periodicals as Topic/history , Psychiatry/ethics , Psychiatry/history , Psychiatry/legislation & jurisprudence , Homosexuality/ethics , Homosexuality/history , Morals , Health Services for Transgender Persons/history , Health Services for Transgender Persons/legislation & jurisprudenceABSTRACT
In an era long before 'Doctor Google', the question of how people accessed information about their bodies and their health is significant. This article investigates how medical knowledge about motherhood was disseminated in the pages of an entirely neglected and short-lived, yet important interwar Viennese periodical, Die Mutter: Halbmonatsschrift für alle Fragen der Schwangerschaft, Säuglingshygiene und Kindererziehung (The Mother: A Biweekly Magazine for All Questions about Pregnancy, Infant Hygiene and Child-Rearing). The magazine's founder, editor and champion was Gina Kaus, a bestselling, prize-winning author and screenplay writer. Die Mutter was part of a wider interwar Viennese press landscape of publications dedicated to mothers and motherhood, many of them produced by women for women. I suggest that periodicals about motherhood constituted an important alternative public sphere, one coming in part from the grassroots, rather than from a top-down municipal approach to public health-even in a city where mothers' bodies were already a focal point for left-of-center politics and public health initiatives in the wake of World War I.
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Mothers , Periodicals as Topic , Humans , Female , History, 20th Century , Periodicals as Topic/history , Austria , Pregnancy , Public Health/historySubject(s)
Gynecology , Obstetrics , Obstetrics/history , Humans , Gynecology/history , Periodicals as Topic/history , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , CanadaSubject(s)
Periodicals as Topic , Humans , Periodicals as Topic/history , History, 21st Century , Brazil , History, 20th CenturyABSTRACT
With more leisure time in the early to mid-twentieth century, more people in industrialized countries took up hobbies. One hobby-woodworking-became a favorite among men, especially homeowners. Beyond the familiar "do-it-yourselfers" there was an audience eager to learn about woodworking, and magazine publishers encouraged them to acquire new skills and home machinery. American publishers led the way, but workshop converts in English-speaking countries like Canada and the United Kingdom got the magazines and the message. The promise of creative leisure at home did not democratize the hobby. Monthly features and awards praising accomplished amateurs did not challenge social and economic norms but defined leisure success in conventional terms. Those with the income and space to maintain a hobby served as models for others whose circumstances were less ideal. Through its flagship publication, a machine manufacturer often acquiesced to the industrial-era pressures that hobbies sought to alleviate.