Caroline Rusterholz
@carorusterholz.bsky.social
Ass. Prof. Graduate Institute, Geneva
Prof Social History, Fribourg University
History of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive politics
She/her. Breast cancer survivor
Prof Social History, Fribourg University
History of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive politics
She/her. Breast cancer survivor
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Topic Collection: Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures | Medical Humanities
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We are delighted to share our call for papers for Medical Humanities. @georgesevers.bsky.social, Naomi Samake-Bäckert and I are guest editing a topic collection titled “Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures. Deadline: 31 October 2026
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My review of Maud Bracke’s fantastic book is out in Women's History Review.
It’s a must-read for anyone interested in reproductive politics!
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It’s a must-read for anyone interested in reproductive politics!
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January 28, 2026 at 9:46 AM
My review of Maud Bracke’s fantastic book is out in Women's History Review.
It’s a must-read for anyone interested in reproductive politics!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It’s a must-read for anyone interested in reproductive politics!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We are delighted to share our call for papers for Medical Humanities. @georgesevers.bsky.social, Naomi Samake-Bäckert and I are guest editing a topic collection titled “Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures. Deadline: 31 October 2026
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Topic Collection: Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures | Medical Humanities
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January 26, 2026 at 12:40 PM
We are delighted to share our call for papers for Medical Humanities. @georgesevers.bsky.social, Naomi Samake-Bäckert and I are guest editing a topic collection titled “Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures. Deadline: 31 October 2026
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Oh thank you @tortietabby.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Oh thank you @tortietabby.bsky.social
A new review of my book Responsible pleasure is out! Thank you @Barbara Gabeler
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Responsible pleasure: the Brook Advisory Centres and youth sexuality in postwar Britain
Published in Women's History Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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September 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A new review of my book Responsible pleasure is out! Thank you @Barbara Gabeler
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This week marks 4 years since the birth of my second son and my breast cancer diagnosis. It’s my annual reminder to be grateful for life, and also to encourage other women to check their breasts. Women with dense breast tissue are at higher of breast cancer — early detection truly saves lives.
September 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
This week marks 4 years since the birth of my second son and my breast cancer diagnosis. It’s my annual reminder to be grateful for life, and also to encourage other women to check their breasts. Women with dense breast tissue are at higher of breast cancer — early detection truly saves lives.
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📍En terrain connu : le 11 septembre, @carorusterholz.bsky.social, professeure d'histoire sociale, retourne dans son ancien lycée à Porrentruy. Un voyage dans le temps pour explorer l'histoire fascinante du contrôle des naissances et présenter ses recherches.
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August 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
📍En terrain connu : le 11 septembre, @carorusterholz.bsky.social, professeure d'histoire sociale, retourne dans son ancien lycée à Porrentruy. Un voyage dans le temps pour explorer l'histoire fascinante du contrôle des naissances et présenter ses recherches.
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Le 11 septembre, je retourne au lycée cantonal de Porrentruy pour présenter mes recherches. Pour celles et ceux qui sont au Jura, vous êtes les bienvenu.e.s
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Heimspiel: Caroline Rusterholz in Porrentruy – Science et Cité
Die Stiftung freut sich über deinen Besuch an einer ihrer nächsten Veranstaltung.
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August 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Le 11 septembre, je retourne au lycée cantonal de Porrentruy pour présenter mes recherches. Pour celles et ceux qui sont au Jura, vous êtes les bienvenu.e.s
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Precarious contracts keep getting shorter. Until recently short-term associate lecturer contracts were for 10 months. Now UCL advertises for 7 months. What does it say about our field, about how we treat the new generation of scholars? www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW277/a...
Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Modern British History at UCL
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July 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Precarious contracts keep getting shorter. Until recently short-term associate lecturer contracts were for 10 months. Now UCL advertises for 7 months. What does it say about our field, about how we treat the new generation of scholars? www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW277/a...
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While Iran and Israel continue to attack each other, Israel continues the mass murder of Palestinians.
BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.
Israeli forces fire on people waiting for aid in Gaza, killing 25, witnesses and hospitals say
Palestinian witnesses say Israeli forces and drones opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza.
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June 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
While Iran and Israel continue to attack each other, Israel continues the mass murder of Palestinians.
Our conference Race and Sexual and Reproductive Health in Historical Perspectives is next week. Join us in person if you can and register online please.
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Race and Sexual and Reproductive Health in Historical Perspectives
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June 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Our conference Race and Sexual and Reproductive Health in Historical Perspectives is next week. Join us in person if you can and register online please.
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Tomorrow I will be giving a talk at Warwick University 'Population, South Asian and Sexual and Reproductive Health in 1980s Britain’. Come along if you can!
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June 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Tomorrow I will be giving a talk at Warwick University 'Population, South Asian and Sexual and Reproductive Health in 1980s Britain’. Come along if you can!
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I am very pleased that my book Women's medicine has been reviewed by @drcamillam.bsky.social alongside the work of brilliant colleagues and friends @histofsex.bsky.social @claireljones.bsky.social and Jessica Borges. What a thorough and beautiful review! Thanks
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Donna J. Drucker, Contraception: A Concise HistoryClaire L. Jones, The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual RevolutionJessica Borge, Protective Practices:...
Looking back at the 2020s, historians of medicine might consider the decade a galvanising moment for research and publications about reproduction. Historie
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May 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I am very pleased that my book Women's medicine has been reviewed by @drcamillam.bsky.social alongside the work of brilliant colleagues and friends @histofsex.bsky.social @claireljones.bsky.social and Jessica Borges. What a thorough and beautiful review! Thanks
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This is fantastic news! I hope Switzerland will follow soon. I accessed this privately as a follow-up to detect early recurrence, and it has made a massive difference to my well-being.
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‘Revolutionary’ DNA blood test to offer thousands in England tailored cancer care
Liquid biopsy, initially for lung and breast cancer patients, can rapidly match treatment to specific tumour
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May 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
This is fantastic news! I hope Switzerland will follow soon. I accessed this privately as a follow-up to detect early recurrence, and it has made a massive difference to my well-being.
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YEAH! congratulations to the three of you!
May 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
YEAH! congratulations to the three of you!
We are excited about our forthcoming international workshop on Race and sexual and reproductive health in historical perspectives. For the entire program and registration process see www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
May 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We are excited about our forthcoming international workshop on Race and sexual and reproductive health in historical perspectives. For the entire program and registration process see www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
The entire program of the international workshop Race and sexual and reproductive health in historical perspective and the registration process are available here www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
Race and Sexual and Reproductive Health in Historical Perspectives | IHEID
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May 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The entire program of the international workshop Race and sexual and reproductive health in historical perspective and the registration process are available here www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
SAVE THE DATE!
18–20 June
Graduate Institute, Geneva – Auditorium A2
Race and Sexual and Reproductive Health in Historical Perspectives
Join us for a two-day international workshop featuring a stellar line-up of scholars.
Organised by the RE:SHARE team and supported by the SNSF
18–20 June
Graduate Institute, Geneva – Auditorium A2
Race and Sexual and Reproductive Health in Historical Perspectives
Join us for a two-day international workshop featuring a stellar line-up of scholars.
Organised by the RE:SHARE team and supported by the SNSF
May 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
SAVE THE DATE!
18–20 June
Graduate Institute, Geneva – Auditorium A2
Race and Sexual and Reproductive Health in Historical Perspectives
Join us for a two-day international workshop featuring a stellar line-up of scholars.
Organised by the RE:SHARE team and supported by the SNSF
18–20 June
Graduate Institute, Geneva – Auditorium A2
Race and Sexual and Reproductive Health in Historical Perspectives
Join us for a two-day international workshop featuring a stellar line-up of scholars.
Organised by the RE:SHARE team and supported by the SNSF
Reposted by Caroline Rusterholz
Do you want to learn about:
💊 A pioneering sexual health charity…
❌ …facing fierce opposition…
💌 …amidst changing sexual cultures in postwar Britain?
Then immerse yourself in @carorusterholz.bsky.social’s captivating research.
(and yes, it’s open access!)
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💊 A pioneering sexual health charity…
❌ …facing fierce opposition…
💌 …amidst changing sexual cultures in postwar Britain?
Then immerse yourself in @carorusterholz.bsky.social’s captivating research.
(and yes, it’s open access!)
academic.oup.com/book/56382?u...
May 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Do you want to learn about:
💊 A pioneering sexual health charity…
❌ …facing fierce opposition…
💌 …amidst changing sexual cultures in postwar Britain?
Then immerse yourself in @carorusterholz.bsky.social’s captivating research.
(and yes, it’s open access!)
academic.oup.com/book/56382?u...
💊 A pioneering sexual health charity…
❌ …facing fierce opposition…
💌 …amidst changing sexual cultures in postwar Britain?
Then immerse yourself in @carorusterholz.bsky.social’s captivating research.
(and yes, it’s open access!)
academic.oup.com/book/56382?u...
So excited about this book coming out! Congratulations @hannahcharnock.bsky.social
‘Teenage Intimacies’ is now officially out in the world! It’s a history of teenage sexuality in postwar England that speaks to ideas of growing up, adolescence, friendship, family, identity, culture and education. It’s been a long time coming but I’m really proud of the end result! 🗃️ #histsex
April 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
So excited about this book coming out! Congratulations @hannahcharnock.bsky.social
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Opportunity to join the editorial board of Oral History, working with me on the Public History section. Full details here, please share! www.ohs.org.uk/volunteering...
Oral History Journal: Public History Editor - Oral History Society
INVITATION FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST TO JOIN THE EDITORIAL TEAM AS AN EDITOR OF THE PUBLIC HISTORY SECTION Oral History has included a separate section on the making, doing and presenting of oral hi...
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March 31, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Opportunity to join the editorial board of Oral History, working with me on the Public History section. Full details here, please share! www.ohs.org.uk/volunteering...
Ah great, it will go straight into my reading on my global history of reproductive politics class, to complement Pechenski 1995 article!
March 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Ah great, it will go straight into my reading on my global history of reproductive politics class, to complement Pechenski 1995 article!
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A paper I've been working on for quite literally 10 years just came out
It's a shitty time, for sure, but this paper is still cool and good, and I still want to you tell you all about it
So gather 'round, folks, and hear the story of the 10 year paper!
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It's a shitty time, for sure, but this paper is still cool and good, and I still want to you tell you all about it
So gather 'round, folks, and hear the story of the 10 year paper!
1/n
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thirty years of ‘strange bedmates’: The ICPD and the nexus of population control, feminism, and family planning
Widely credited with ending population control and ushering in a new era of reproductive rights, the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action also incl...
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February 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A paper I've been working on for quite literally 10 years just came out
It's a shitty time, for sure, but this paper is still cool and good, and I still want to you tell you all about it
So gather 'round, folks, and hear the story of the 10 year paper!
1/n
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It's a shitty time, for sure, but this paper is still cool and good, and I still want to you tell you all about it
So gather 'round, folks, and hear the story of the 10 year paper!
1/n
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....