Wendy Mitchinson

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Wendy Mitchinson is affiliated with the following schools: University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Windsor

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According to Wikipedia, Wendy Mitchinson was a Canadian historian at the University of Waterloo and a Canada Research Chair in Gender and Medical history. Mitchinson trained at York University and quickly became a major figure in the field of Canadian women's history. With Ramsay Cook, she co-edited her first book "The Proper Sphere: Woman's Place in Canadian Society", a collection of writing on the then new field of Canadian women's history. In 1988, she co-authored "Canadian Women: A History" the first textbook on Canadian women. She joined the University of Waterloo with tenure in 1985, and continued as a professor emerita after her 2013 retirement.

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Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood (1989) (239)
The Nature of their Bodies: Women and their Doctors in Victorian Canada (1991) (106)
On the Case: Explorations in Social History (1998) (76)
Giving birth in Canada, 1900-1950 (2002) (56)
"Nations Are Built of Babies": Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children 1900- 1940. (1993) (42)
Theatres of Contact: The Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw Meet Colonialism in British Columbia and at the Chicago World’s Fair (2000) (37)
"They're Still Women After All": The Second World War and Canadian Womanhood, Ruth Roach Pierson (1986) (35)
Making Sense of Self: Medical Advice Literature in Late Nineteenth-Century America (1981) (22)
Body Failure: Medical Views of Women, 1900-1950 (2013) (20)
Liberation Deferred? the Ideas of the English-Canadian Suffragists, 1877–1918 by Carol Lee Bacchi (review) (2016) (17)
The Proper sphere : woman's place in Canadian society (1977) (16)
Introduction: Social History and Case Files Research (1998) (16)
1. Stories of Their Lives: The Historian and the Capital Case File (1998) (15)
Essays in the History of Canadian Medicine (1990) (14)
Toronto's Girl Problem: The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880–1930. By Carolyn Strange (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. 299pp.) (1996) (14)
Social Investment in Medical Forms: The 1866 Cholera Scare and Beyond (2016) (13)
Canadian Women and Church Missionary Societies in the Nineteenth Century: A Step Towards Independence (1977) (12)
Hysteria and Insanity in Women: A Nineteenth-Century Canadian Perspective (1986) (10)
No longer the same woman: medical perceptions of menopause, 1900-1950. (2006) (9)
Gynecological operations on insane women: London, Ontario, 1895-1901. (1982) (8)
Historical attitudes toward women and childbirth. (1979) (8)
3. On the Case of the Case: The Emergence of the Homosexual as a Case History in Early-Twentieth-Century Ontario (1998) (8)
14. Parents, Daughters, and Family Court Intrusions into Working-Class Life (1998) (7)
The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men & Power in Late Colonial Mexico. By Steve J. Stern (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xiii plus 478pp.) (1996) (6)
Gender and insanity as characteristics of the insane: a nineteenth-century case. (1987) (6)
Pain, Pleasure, and American Childbirth. From the Twilight Sleep to the Read Method, 1914-1960. Margaret Sandelowski. (1985) (6)
H.B. Atlee on Obstetrics and Gynaecology: A Singular and Representative Voice in 20th-Century Canadian Medicine (2003) (6)
The Toronto and Gladesville asylums: humane alternatives for the insane in Canada and Australia? (1989) (5)
13. Uncovering and Reconstructing Family Violence: Ontario Criminal Case Files (1998) (5)
The medical view of women: the case of the late nineteenth century Canada. (1986) (5)
Breast Cancer in Canada: Medical Response and Attitudes, 1900-1950 (2005) (5)
Colonizing Bodies: Aboriginal Health and Healing in British Columbia, 1900–1950 by Mary-Ellen Kelm (review) (2016) (5)
7. Males, Migrants, and Murder in British Columbia, 1900-1923 (1998) (4)
Canadian Medical History: Diagnosis and Prognosis (1982) (4)
The YWCA and Reform in the Nineteenth Century (1979) (4)
7. Mother Blaming And Obesity: An Alternative Perspective (2016) (4)
"Medical Perceptions of Female Sexuality: A Late Nineteenth Century Case" (1985) (4)
The Impact of Feminism on the Research and Writing of Medical History: A Personal View (2001) (4)
A medical debate in nineteenth-century English Canada: ovariotomies. (1984) (4)
Gynecological operations on the insane. (1980) (4)
Afterword. Telling Stories about Dead People (1998) (3)
The sometimes uncertain world of Canadian obstetrics, 1900-1950. (2000) (3)
10. Ontario Mothers' Allowance Case Files as a Site of Contestation (1998) (3)
5. Christian Harmony: Family, Neighbours, and Community in Upper Canadian Church Discipline Records (1998) (3)
Introduction: Obesity In Canada (2016) (3)
Feminism in twentieth‐century science, technology, and medicine (2003) (3)
12. Obesity In Children: A Medical Perception, 1920–1980 (2013) (3)
“Shattered Nerves”: Doctors, Patients, and Depression in Victorian England Janet Oppenheim (1993) (2)
Eunice Dyke: Health Care Pioneer (1988) (2)
Medical perceptions of female sexuality: a late 19th-century case. (1985) (2)
6. Elderly Inmates and Caregiving Sisters: Catholic Institutions for the Elderly in Nineteenth-Century Montreal (1998) (2)
Tribute to Charles Roland. (2000) (2)
Fighting Fat: Canada, 1920-1980 (2018) (2)
R. M. Bucke: a Victorian asylum superintendent. (1981) (2)
Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women 1870-1900 Annmarie AdamsArchitecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women 1870-1900 Annmarie Adams Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996, $39.95. (1996) (1)
4. Filing and Defiling: The Organization of the State Security Archives in the Interwar Years (1998) (1)
Medical Perceptions of Healthy Women: The Case of Late Nineteenth Century Canada (1987) (1)
For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English. (1980) (1)
Dear Grace: A Romance of History by Margaret Gillett (review) (2016) (1)
No One Becomes a Feminist to Be Appreciated (2013) (1)
Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine Regina Markell Morantz-SanchezSympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine Regina Markell Morantz-Sanchez New York: Oxford University Press, 1985, 464 p., $24.95 (U.S.) (1987) (1)
Medical historiography in English Canada. (1993) (1)
15. The 'Grab Bag' Mennonite Refugee Family in Post-War Canada (1998) (1)
Bodily Subjects: Essays on Gender and Health, 1800–2000 (2015) (1)
On the Case: Explorations in Social History: A Roundtable Discussion (2016) (1)
Women's History (1994) (1)
The Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal. Deborah Gorham. (1983) (1)
The Rise and Fall of National Women’s Hospital: A History by Linda Bryder (review) (2015) (0)
The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women’s Rights and Woman’s Sphere by Jeanne Boydston, Mary Kelley, and Anne Margolis (review) (2019) (0)
6. Infant, Child, and Teen Obesity (2018) (0)
The Age of Light, Soap, and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885–1925. By Mariana Valverde (Toronto, Ontario, Canada: mcClelland & Stewart Inc., 1991. 205 pp.) (1993) (0)
In Subordination: Professional Women, 1870–1970. By Mary Kinnear (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. ix plus 245pp. $49.95/cloth, $19.95/paperback) (1996) (0)
2. The Frailty of Woman (1991) (0)
Beverly Boutilier and Alison Prentice, editors. Creating Historical Memory: English-Canadian Women and the Work of History. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 1997. Pp. xii, 308. $75.00 (1999) (0)
Penelope’s Web: Some Perceptions of Women in European and Canadian Society by N.E.S. Griffiths (review) (2016) (0)
Mary Hallett and Marilyn Davis - Firing the Heather:The Life and Times of Nellie McClung (1995) (0)
Katherine Arnup, Andrée Levesque, and Ruth Roach Pierson,eds. Delivering Motherhood: Maternal Ideologies and Practices inthe 19th and 20th Centuries. London and New York: Routledge,1990. Pp. 322. (1992) (0)
4. Sexuality in Women (1991) (0)
Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe. A Generation of Women: Education in the Lives of Progressive Reformers. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press , 1979. Pp. viii, 207. Illustrations. $15.00 (1980) (0)
The Evolution of Obesity (2011) (0)
Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus: Women and Health in America: Historical readings edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt (1985) (0)
Judith walzer Leavitt (editor), Women and Health in America: Historical ReadingsJudith walzer Leavitt (editor), Women and Health in America: Historical Readings Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. 1984 526 PP. (1985) (0)
Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada (review) (2002) (0)
Private Practice: Canadian Medicine and the Politics of Health Insurance 1911-1966 (1988) (0)
Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus: Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss: Figuring the Social by E. A. Heaman, Alison Li, and Shelley McKellar, eds. (2009) (0)
12. Problematic Bodies and Agency: Women Patients in Canada, 1900-1950 (1998) (0)
Books Received Sept 2014-August 2015. (2015) (0)
The Evolution of Obesity (review) (2010) (0)
Childbearing in American Society: 1650–1856. By Catherine M. Scholten (New York: New York University Press, 1985. vii plus 143 pp.) (1987) (0)
‘It’s Not Society That’s the Problem, It’s Women’s Bodies’: A Historical View of Medical Treatment of Women (2019) (0)
Book reviews/Comptes Rendus: The mysteries of Montreal: Memories of a midwife by Charlotte Fuhrer (edited by Peter Ward) (1985) (0)
A History of Women’s Bodies, by Edward Shorter (1984) (0)
5. Advice on Marriage and Motherhood (2013) (0)
Ornella Moscucci - The Science of Woman: Gynaecology andGender in England, 1800-1929 (1994) (0)
9. Gynaecological Surgery (1991) (0)
Book Reviews (2002) (0)
Charlotte Führer (edited by Peter Ward) The mysteries of Montreal: Memories of a midwifeCharlotte Führer (edited by Peter Ward) The mysteries of Montreal: Memories of a midwife Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 1984; 270 pp., $19.95 (1985) (0)
8. “The ... mischievous tendency of specialism”: Gynaecology (2013) (0)
Back to the Bedside: Recent Work on the History of Medicine in Canada (2009) (0)
Chapter Four. The Expanding World of Prenatal Care (2002) (0)
The Secret Plague: Venereal Disease in Canada 1838–1939. By Jay Cassel (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. viii plus 340 pp. $35.00, $17.95 pb) (1988) (0)
Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 (review) (2001) (0)
Chapter Three. Midwives Did Not Disappear (2002) (0)
1. The Victorian World: Doctors, Science, and ‘Woman’ (1991) (0)
Canada's Nursing Sisters. G. W. L. Nicholson. (1976) (0)
Chapter One. The Uncertain World of Medicine and Medical Practitioners (2002) (0)
Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus: 'Shattered Nerves': Doctors, Patients, and Depression in Victorian England by Janet Oppenheim (1993) (0)
3. Three Mysteries: Puberty, Menstruation, and Menopause (1991) (0)
Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. By Anthony Wohl (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983. 440 pp. $20.00) (1985) (0)
Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus: Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine by Regina Markell Morantz-Sanchez (1987) (0)
Book Reviews (2012) (0)
A History of Contraception: From Antiquity to the Present Day by Angus McLaren (review) (2016) (0)
Marion Milliard: ‘Raring to Go All the Time7 (1997) (0)
Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus: Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women 1870-1900 by Annmarie Adams (1996) (0)
The Health of Medical History (1990) (0)
Jo Murphy-Lawless. Reading Birth and Death: A History of Obstetric Thinking. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1998. Pp. 343 (2000) (0)
6. The Emergence of Medical Obstetrics (1991) (0)
Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus: Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire by Edward Shorter (2007) (0)
Peter L. Twohig. Labour in the Laboratory: Medical Laboratory Workers in the Maritimes, 1900–1950. (Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society, number 23.) Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 241. $70.00 (2006) (0)
8. The Rise of Gynaecology (1991) (0)
Emily Slowe: Doctor and Suffragist by Mary Beacock Fryer (review) (2016) (0)
RONALD HAMOWY — Canadian Medicine: A Study in Restricted Entry. (1986) (0)
The Bedroom and the State: The Changing Practices and Politics of Contraception and Abortion in Canada, 1880–1980. By Angus McLaren and Arlene Tigar McLaren. (Toronto: McCelland and Stewart, 1986. 186 pp.) (1989) (0)
Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives (review) (2008) (0)
The Captured Womb: A History of the Medical Care of Pregnant Women. By Ann Oakley (New York: Basil Blackwell Publisher Ltd., 1984. 352 pp.) (1986) (0)
“Send us a Lady Physician”: Women Doctors in America, 1835–1920 ed. by Ruth J. Abram (review) (2019) (0)
Scientia Canadensis Giving Birth in Canada : ��-�� (0)
Chapter Two. The Even More Uncertain World of Obstetrics (2002) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
11. Patient Perspectives in Psychiatrie Case Files (1998) (0)
We Walked Very Warily: a History of Women at McGill by Margaret Gillet (review) (2016) (0)
Chapter Eight. Maternal Mortality and Postnatal Care (2002) (0)
6. “On the fringe of knowledge”: Infertility (2013) (0)
Jewish tradition in Arendt — or, for that matter in Cassirer — that brackets too heavily the consequential intellectual break that National Socialism (2016) (0)
Caring and Curing: Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada ed. by Dianne Dodd, and Deborah Gorham (review) (2016) (0)
5. A Modern Issue Emerges Birth Control (1991) (0)
Let the Family Flourish: A History of the Family Service Bureau of Regina, 1913– 1982 by James M. Pitsula, and: From Asylum to Welfare by Harvey G. Simmons (review) (2016) (0)
Book Reviews/Compte Rendus: Moments of Unreason: The Practice of Canadian Psychiatry and the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1923 by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh (1991) (0)
Book Reviews (1993) (0)
NOTE ON SOURCES AND METHODOLOGY (1991) (0)
10. Women and Mental Health (1991) (0)
Chapter Seven. Caesarian Section (2002) (0)
Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire Edward ShorterWritten in the Flesh: A History of Desire Edward Shorter Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005, 321 p., $39.95 (2007) (0)
Chapter Six. Obstetrical Intervention (2002) (0)
Reviews of books: Canada (1995) (0)
Reviews of Books:For Patients of Moderate Means: A Social History of the Voluntary Public General Hospital in Canada, 1890-1950 David Gagan, Rosemary R. Gagan (2004) (0)
Jacqueline H Wolf, Deliver me from pain: anesthesia and birth in America , Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 2009, pp. xiii, 277, £26.00, $50.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-9110-6). (2010) (0)
Michael Bliss. William Osler: A Life in Medicine. Toronto:University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp. 581. (2002) (0)
Reviews of Books:Island Doctor: John Mackieson and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Prince Edward Island David A. E. Shephard (2005) (0)
And on That Farm He Had a Wife: Ontario Farm Women and Feminism, 1900–1970 (2002) (0)
Joy Damousi, Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. x + 221. $64.95 cloth; $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-521-583233; 0521-587239). (2001) (0)
Chapter Five. Childbirth (2002) (0)
7. Body Image (2018) (0)
Island Doctor: John Mackieson and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Prince Edward Island. (McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services [Hannah Institute] Studies in the History of Medicine, number 20.) (2005) (0)
7. Changing Obstetric Care (1991) (0)
‘Through Sunshine and Shadow’: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Evangelicalism, and Reform in Ontario, 1874–1930 by Sharon Anne Cook (review) (2016) (0)
Book Reviews (2012) (0)
11. Insane Women: Their Symptoms and Treatment (1991) (0)

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