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Membership Member Bios Pridmore-Brown, Michele, PhD
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E-mail: mpb@berkeley.edu Michele Pridmore-Brown is a scholar with the Office of History of Science and Technology at UC Berkeley. She works at the insterstices of gender and science studies. Her earliest scholarly work was on literary and political appropriations of the new sciences of the early 20th century. More recently, she has been interested in how biomedical knowledge and reproductive technologies have, historically and in this century, affected subjectivity, social and family norms, and representations of the gendered life-course. She is currently working on a project on the bio/politics of later motherhood in historical context. This project is about how timing--and in particular the normalization of post-midlife motherhood among professionals--impacts the meaning of motherhood (and fatherhood). More specifically, her project examines how reproductive stakes and trade-offs change across the life-course; and how maternal postponement has created new kinds of bioscientific knowledge, new kinds of (maternal) bodies and relationships, and new cultural values. In the past, she has written for both the academic and popular press, including a prize-winning article in PMLA and articles and reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, Salon.com and The Nation among others. A recent article on Annie Leibovitz's "queer consumption of motherhood" appeared recently in Women's Studies Quarterly (WSQ). |
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