Who Controls Women’s Health?: A Century of Struggle

Cover illustration from a Planned Parenthood guidebook, courtesy of the New York Academy of Medicine Library.

Free! Join the Museum of the City of New York and the New York Academy of Medicine for a series of three talks examining key battles over women’s ability to control their bodies, health choices, and fertility. Developed with support from Humanities New York.

Get Me Out: Childbirth in Early 20^th Century NYC
Tuesday, August 22, 6:30 pm at the New York Academy of Medicine

Free, RSVP encouraged.

Event Thursday, October 5, 6:30pm

Past Event: More than Medicine: Social Justice and Feminist Movements for Health

Free! Jennifer Nelson explores the launch of the women’s health movement and its connections to the present day.

Event Tuesday, August 22, 6:30pm

Past Event: Get Me Out: Childbirth in Early 20th-century NYC

Free! Randi Hutter Epstein explores how turn-of-the-century doctors, medical charlatans, and feminist activists saved women’s lives.

Event Wednesday, September 13, 6:30pm

Past Event: On the Front Lines of Reproductive Rights

Free! Faye Wattleton shares her experience on the front lines of national conflict over reproductive rights.

ACT UP, HIV/AIDS, and the Fight for Healthcare

Thursday, July 6, 2017 by Stephen Vider

By Stephen Vider, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

Stephen Vider is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Museum of the City of New York and the curator of AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism. He previously curated Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York with Donald Albrecht, MCNY curator of architecture and design. His forthcoming book, Queer Belongings: Gay Men, Lesbians and the Politics of Home After World War II (under contract with University of Chicago Press), examines how American ideals about domestic life shaped LGBT relationships and politics from 1945 to the present.

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Truman Capote’s “Black and White Dance”

Monday, June 19, 2017 by Lindsay Turley

By Lindsay Turley, Director of Collections

Lindsay Turley oversees projects involving the stewardship and access of the Museum's collections objects.

Museum Architect Apprentice Program

Thursday, June 15, 2017 by Kubi Ackerman

By Kubi Ackerman, Director, Future City Lab

The Sounds of Patriotism

Monday, June 12, 2017 by Morgen Stevens-Garmon

By Morgen Stevens-Garmon, Associate Curator, Theater Collection

The Life Cycle of a Loan

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 by Miranda Hambro and Matt Heffernan

By Miranda Hambro and Matt Heffernan

Miranda Hambro is the Core Exhibition Registrar and Matt Heffernan is a Registrar in the Collections Department.

Who Controls Women’s Health?: A Century of Struggle

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