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JUDITH A. HOUCK
Department of Medical History and Bioethics
1300 University Ave.
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-6287
Jahouck@wisc.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
M.A.
B.A.
Department of History of Science, University Of Wisconsin, Madison
(December 1998)
Department of History of Science, University Of Wisconsin, Madison
(May 1994)
St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM
Liberal Arts (May 1985)
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Associate Professor, Fall 2008-present
Medical History and Bioethics, Gender and Women’s Studies Women’s
Studies, History of Science, and the Center for Women’s Health Research
Associate Chair, Women and Gender Studies, Fall 2011-present
Assistant Professor, Fall 2002-Spring 2008
Medical History and Bioethics, Women’s Studies, History of Science, and the
Center for Women’s Health Research
Affiliate, Spring 2007-present
History Department
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Women’s Health and Aging: Research and Leadership Training Grant Trainee, July
2000-July 2002
National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health
University of Georgia, Athens
Temporary Assistant Professor and Franklin Teaching Fellow, Fall 1999–Summer 2000
History Department
GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS
Faculty Development Seminar Award, “LGBTQ Studies,” Funded by Center for the
Humanities, the Institute for Research in the Humanities, and the College of
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Letters and Science, A. Finn Enke, co-organizer
Simon Visiting Professorship, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and
Medicine, University of Manchester, October 2010
Vilas Associate Award, for 2009-10, 2010-11
University of Wisconsin System, Office of Professional and Instructional Development
OPID Conference Development Grant, Fall 2007 (co-author)
University of Wisconsin Brittingham Grant, Fall 2007 (co-author)
For visiting scholar Leonore Tiefer
Schlesinger Library Research Support Grant, 2007-2008
Sophia Smith Collection Travel-to-Collections Grant, 2007-2008
A.W. Mellon Foundation Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities
“Bodies and the Production of Perversion,” 2006-2007 (co-author)
“Reproducing Bodies: Technologies and Ideologies,” 2007-2008 (co-author)
University of Wisconsin, Madison Graduate School Research Grant
(2006, 2007, 2009)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Institute for Research in the Humanities
Fall 2006
University of Wisconsin Brittingham Grant, Spring 2006 (co-author)
For visiting scholar Alice Dreger
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006)
Chapters
“The Best Prescription for Women’s Health: Feminist Approaches to Well-Woman
Care,” in Prescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in
Modern America, eds. Jeremy A. Greene and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins (Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2012).
“The Medicalization of Menopause in America, 1897-2000: Mapping the Terrain,”
Controversies in Science and Technology, Volume 1: From Maize to Menopause,
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ed. Daniel Lee Kleinman, Abby J. Kinchy, and Jo Handelsman (Madison, WI:
University of Wisconsin Press, 2005), 198-218.
Articles
“‘What Do These Women Want?’ Feminist Responses to Feminine Forever,” Bulletin of
the History of Medicine 77 (2003): 103-132.
“How to Treat a Menopausal Woman: A History, 1900-2000,” Current Woman’s Health
Reports 2 (2002): 349-355.
Book Reviews
Robert Darby, A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of
Circumcision in Britain, in British Journal of the History of Science 40 (2007):
450-452.
“Ambiguous Outcomes: Women and the Power and Prominence of Medicine” [Reviews
of Jean Elso, Am I Still A Woman? Hysterectomy and Gender Identity; Barbara
Seaman, The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the
Estrogen Myth; Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S.
Imperialism in Puerto Rico] in Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women’s
Studies Resources 26 (Winter-Spring 2005): 8-10.
Philippa Levine, Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British
Empire, in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 60 (2005): 235-
237.
Sandra Morgen, Into Our Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United
States, 1969-1990, in The Historian 66 (2004): 594-5.
Lara V. Marks, Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill, in Bulletin of the
History of Medicine 77 (2003): 980-982.
Amalie Kass, Midwifery and Medicine in Boston: Walter Channing, M.D., 1786-1876, in
Journal of American History 108 (2003): 217-8.
Melbourne Tapper, In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race, in Bulletin
of the History of Medicine 75 (2001): 355-6.
PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
Book
Claiming Our Bodies, Demanding Our Liberation: The Women’s Health Movement,
1969-1993
Article
“Revolutionary Health Care? Challenge, Compromise, and Continuity in a Feminist
Women’s Health Center, 1973-2007,” submitted to Journal of Women’s History
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PRESENTATIONS
Papers Presented, Professional Meetings and Conferences
“Making Sense of the Abortion Marketplace: The Federation of Feminist Women's
Health Centers and Consequences of Women's Right to Choose,” Organization of
American Historians, Milwaukee, WI; April 2012
“Treating men at a lesbian health clinic: Identity politics, feminist organizing, and health
care provision, 1979-present,” American Historical Association, Chicago, IL;
January 2012
“Treating men at a lesbian health clinic: Identity politics, feminist organizing, and health
care provision, 1979-present,” American Association for the History of Medicine
Annual Meeting: Philadelphia, PA; April 2011
“Political Practices: Feminist Health Activism and Feminist History,” Politics and
practices: the history of post-war women's health, Centre for the History of
Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester; October 2010
(Keynote)
“With a Flashlight and a Speculum: Envisioning a Feminist Revolution,” American
Association for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting: Cleveland, OH;
April 2009
“Navigating the ‘Race Course’: Teaching Science, Medicine, and Race to
Undergraduates” (with Richard Keller), Making Race, Making Health: Historical
Approaches to Race, Medicine and Public Health: Austin, Texas;
November 2008
“Sexual Blossoming or Sexual Decline? Understanding the Sexual Potential of
Menopausal Women, 1940-1980,” (Re)constructing the Aging Body: Western
Medical Cultures and Gender, 1600-2000: Mainz, Germany; September 2008
(Invited participant)
“Women's Health and State Power: Untangling the Relationship,” in Women and the
U.S. State: A Roundtable Discussion, Berkshire Conference on the History of
Women: Minneapolis, MN; June 2008
“Lay Women Health Workers: Balancing Feminist Principles, State Policies, and Medical
Pressures, 1971-1981,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting: Arlington,
VA; November 2007
“The Politics of Women’s Health: The Tale of One Clinic,” American Association for the
History of Medicine Annual Meeting: Montreal, Canada; May 2007
“Coping with the Liberated Patient: Physicians, Patients and the Challenge to Medical
Authority,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women: Claremont, CA;
June 2005
“‘Hold Oneself Well in Hand’: Women Physicians Confront Menopause, 1897-1936,”
Women Physicians, Women’s Politics, Women’s Health: National Library of
Medicine, Bethesda, MD; March 2005 (Invited participant)
“‘Think of it as Keeping up the Payments on Your House”: Sexual Pleasures and
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Responsibilities of Menopausal Women, 1945-1975,” Symposium on North
American Sexualities: Amherst, MA; April 2004
“Hormone Replacement Therapy: A Historical Perspective,” 5th Annual Elizabeth
Karlin Women’s Health Conference: Madison, WI; November 2003 (Invited
participant)
“‘Above All, Don’t Talk About Your Change of Life’: Charting a Course Through
Menopause, 1938-1962,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting:
Memphis, TN; April 2003
Panels, Professional Meetings and Conferences
Comment, Gendered Bodies and Queer Frontiers; Graduate Student Committee of the
Programs in Gender and Women’s History, University of Wisconsin, Madison;
March 2012
Comment, Boundaries of Disability Conference; University of Wisconsin, Madison;
February 2011
Comment, “Controlling Birth: The Technologies of Planning Parenthood,” Society for
the History of Technology Annual Meeting: Minneapolis, MN; November 2005
Chair, “Politics of Women’s Health,” UW System Women’s Studies Conference:
Madison, WI; April 2005
Commentator, “A History of Early Modern Bodies,” University of Wisconsin, Madison
History of Science Workshop; February 2005
Commentator and Chair, “Medical History of Twentieth-Century America,” Missouri
Valley History Conference: Omaha, NE; March 2003
Invited Lectures, International
“Treating men at a lesbian health clinic: Identity politics, feminist organizing, and health
care provision, 1979-present,” Centre of American Studies, University of
Manchester; October 2010
“Revolutionary Health Care? Challenge, Compromise, and Continuity in a Feminist
Women's Health Center, 1973-2007,” Centre for the History of Science,
Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
“History of Sex and Sexuality: Issues and Debates,” “The Medicalization of Menopause,
Mapping the Terrain,” “Who is the Menopausal Woman?”
Gender and Medicine Series 2004, Graduate Institute of Gender Studies and
College of Nursing, Kaohsiung Medical University: Kaoshiung, Taiwan; June 3-
4, 2004
“What Do These Women Want? Feminism and Menopause,” “How to Treat A
Menopausal Woman”
International Forum on HRT, Taiwanese Feminist Scholar Association, Women’s
Research Program, National Taiwan University, Institute of Community Health
Nursing, National Yang-Ming University, Graduate Institute of Gender Studies,
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Invited Lectures, National
Kaohsiung Medical University: Taipei, Taiwan; June 6, 2004
“The Medicalization of Menopause,” University of Iowa History of Medicine Series
(forthcoming October 2012)
“Hot and Bothered: A Historical Look at the Menopausal Woman,” Humboldt State
University, Women’s History Month; March 2006
“Understanding the ‘Liberated’ Patient: Women, Medicine and Feminism,” California
State University, Fullerton, Women’s History Month; March 2006
“Menopause and Liberation: Female Physicians and the Political Uses of Menopause, 1900-
1980,” University of Texas, San Antonio Women’s History Month; March 2005
“The Social History of a Biological Process: Menopause, 1900-1980,” Bryn Mawr
College, Science in Society Program; December 2002
“Is Menopause a Social Disease?: Medicine and Menopause in America, 1897-1980,"
Florida State University; March 2002
Invited Lectures, Local
“Sexual Blossoming or Sexual Decline: Understanding the Sexual Potential of
Menopausal Women, 1940-1980” Interdisciplinary Sexuality Seminar, University
of Wisconsin, Madison; November 2009
“Hot and Bothered: A Historical Look at the Menopausal Woman,” OB/Gyn Grand
Rounds, UW Madison School of Medicine and Public Health; January 2008
“’We’re Not Talking About a Service Organization’: Conflict, Survival, and the
Federation of Feminist Women’s Health Centers,” UW Madison History of
Science Department Brownbag; April 2007
“No Sex is Safe Sex: A History of Medical Involvement in Sexuality,” Sexual Health
Week, UW Madison School of Medicine and Public Health; April 2007
“A History of Women in Medicine,” Women in Medicine Student Group, UW Madison
School of Medicine and Public Health; March 2007
“Feminist Politics and Women’s Health: Uneasy Alliances and Angry Schisms,” Institute
for Research in the Humanities: UW Madison; November 2006
“Race, Gender, and Personality: Putting Student Evaluation of Faculty in Perspective,”
UW Madison Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute; March
2006
“Beyond Hot Flashes and Hormones: Menopause as a Social Disease,” The William
Snow Miller Seminar in Medical History, Ebling Library; April 2002
“‘Consider the Patient as a Woman and Not a Group of Glands’: Women, Menopause,
and the Medical Encounter, 1938-1962,” UW Madison Center for Women’s
Health and Women’s Health Research; April 2002
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TEACHING
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Medical History and Bioethics 275: Science, Medicine, and Race: A History
(Taught with Prof. Rick Keller)
Medical History and Bioethics 504: Society and Health Care in American History
(Taught with Prof. Ronald Numbers)
Medical History and Bioethics 523: History of Race in American Medicine and
Public Health
Medical History and Bioethics 524: Medical History of Sex and Sexuality
Medical History and Bioethics 531: Women and Health in American History
Women’s Studies 532: History of the American Body
Gender and Women’s Studies 720: Introduction to Graduates Studies in Gender
and Women’s Studies
Medical History and Bioethics 919: A History of Reproduction in the United
States
Medical History and Bioethics 919: Gender, Health, and Illness
Medical History and Bioethics 919: A History of Health Activism in the United
States
Student Advising, Graduate
Dissertation Advisor
Vicki Fama, History of Science (PhD expected 2017)
Shannon Withycombe, History of Science (Defended August 2010)
“Slipped Away: Pregnancy Loss in Nineteenth-Century America”
Dissertation Committees
Ashley Clundiff, History
Anna Kaatz, Special Committee (Defended August 2012)
“Women’s Health, Language and System Change”
Zoë Van Orsdol, History (Withdrew 2010)
“Breakfast Is The Most Important Meal of the Revolution: The Black Panthers,
Young Lords, AIM, and Health Care As a Civil Right”
Sarah Jedd, Communication Arts (Defended May 2009)
“Abortion and the ‘Good Mother’: Rhetoric of the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, 1942-1973”
Bridget Collins, History of Science (PhD expected 2013)
"The Transformation of Domestic Medicine in America, 1900-1960"
Andrew Ruis, History of Science (Defended May 2011)
“School Foodservice, Children’s Nutrition, and Public Health in
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Twentieth-Century America”
Stephanie Westcott, History (Defended January 2012)
“Instructing Deviance: Popular Culture and Sex Education, 1950-1965”
Evelyn Fine, History of Science (Defended May 2008)
“Pathways to Practice: Women Physicians in Chicago, 1850-1902”
Matthew B. Levine, History of Science (Defended May 2008)
“A Cultural History of Radiation and Radioactivity in America, 1895-1945”
Karen Walloch, History of Science (Defended October 2007)
“A Hot-Bed of the Anti-Vaccine Heresy”: Opposition to Compulsory Vaccination
in Boston and Cambridge, 1890-1905”
Jeff Jentzen, History of Science (Defended April 2007)
“Death Investigation in America: Coroners, Medical Examiners, and the Pursuit
of Medical Certainty”
Heidi Cooper, Theater (Defended May 2007)
“An Investigation of the Racialization of Puppets and Puppetry”
Melissa Thompson, Theater (Defended August 2006)
“Size on Display: The Dynamics of Female Fat in Contemporary Performance
Art”
Lisa Wade, Sociology (Defended July 2006)
“Female Genital Mutilation in the American Imagination”
Erika Milam, History of Science (Defended June 2006)
“Looking for A Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology, 1915-
1975”
Rebecca Kinraide, History of Science (Defended December 2005)
“The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and the Democritization of
Learning in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain”
Thomas Robertson, History (Defended August 2005)
“The Population Bomb: Population Growth, Globalization, and American
Environmentalism, 1945-1980”
Hsiu-yun Wang, History of Science (Defended July 2003)
“Stranger Bodies: Women, Gender, and Missionary Medicine In China, 1870s-
1930s”
Masters’ Advising, Gender and Women’s Studies
Ariel Baumwell, Thesis Advisor, Fall 2011-August 2012
“The Complexity of Health Care Discrimination Against Transgender People”
Christina Steele, Thesis Advisor, Fall 2008-Fall 2011
Withdrew without completing
Anna Piechowski, Thesis Advisor, Fall 2010-September 2011
“Menstrual Product Advertisements in Seventeen magazine, 1970-2010”
Kate Knudson, Thesis Advisor, Fall 2010-August 2011
“Fatness and Health: Mapping the Boundaries of Intelligibility Online”
Stephanie Rytilahti, Thesis Committee, Spring-Summer 2010
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“Place, Space, and the Institutionalization of Women’s Studies at the University
of Wisconsin”
Minjon Tholen, Thesis Committee, Fall 2010
“Beyond the Adoption Triad: The Gender Dimensions of International Adoption
in Relation to Global Social and Reproductive Justice”
Weina Chen, Thesis Committee, Spring 2009
“An Impossible Bond? A Case Study of Feminist Entrepreneurship Within
Western Capitalist Society”
Michaela Kerns, Thesis Advisor, Fall 2008-June 2009
“The Making Of Mothers: The Disciplining and Instruction of Women in
Twentieth Century Pregnancy Advice Literature, 1900-1970”
Yuin-Ting Ong, Thesis Committee, Spring 2008
“Presence and Absence in the Same Gesture: The Politics of Women and Body
Hair in Contemporary Taiwan”
Masters’ Advising, History of Science, Medicine and Technology
Vicki Fama, Fall 2011-May 2012
Bennet Goldstein, Summer 2010-present
History of HIV+ women
Gregory Strodtman, Summer 2008-Spring 2009
“Boys and Bad Behavior: A history of ADHD”
Shannon Withycombe, Fall 2004-Spring 2005
“She Claims to Have Two Selves: The Tension Between Motherhood and
Insanity in Wisconsin, 1860-1908”
Masters’ Advising, History
Ashley Cundiff, Spring 2011
“Susan Rosenberg and the Imprisonment of Political Radicals”
Prelim Committees
Vicki Fama, History of the Body
Katie Robinson, History of the Body (Prelim passed August 2011)
Hallie Lieberman, History of Sexuality, (Prelim passed August 2011)
Lynnette Regouby, History of the Body (Prelim passed December 2008)
Jocelyn Bosley, Gender, Science, and History (Prelim passed August 2008)
Bridget Collins, History of Women’s Health (Prelim passed July 2008)
Zoë Van Orsdol, Histories of Health Activism (Prelim passed September 2006)
Shannon Withycombe, Histories of Women’s Health and Sexuality
(Prelim passed November 2006)
SERVICE
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Institutional
Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Associate Chair, Fall 2011-present
Curriculum Committee, Chair, Fall 2011-present,
Member 2002-2006, Fall 2007-Spring 2008
Director of Graduate Studies, Fall 2008-Spring 2010
Graduate Committee, Fall 2008-Spring 2010
Program Committee, 2002-present
Research Committee, Spring 2007
LGBT Studies Certificate Committee, 2005-present
Women and Health Search Committee, Fall 2010
Chris Garlough Tenure Committee, Fall 2010-February 2012 (Tenured February
2012)
Eunjung Kim Tenure Committee, Spring 2012-present
History of Science Department
Committee of the Whole, 2002-present
Ad Hoc Strategic Planning Committee, Summer 2012
Placement Director, Fall 2003-Summer 2006
Ad Hoc Gender Climate Committee, 2003-Spring 2008
(Chair, Spring 2007-Spring 2008)
Director of Graduate Studies, Summer 2005-Spring 2010
National Research Council Coordinator, Summer 2006-present
Department of Medical History and Bioethics
Committee of the Whole, 2002-present
Curriculum Committee, Spring 2010-present
Mentor, Dayle DeLancey, Fall 2010-present
Teaching Award Nominating Committee (Successful nomination of Judith Walzer
Leavitt)
Conference co-organizer and presenter, “One Woman's Labor: Judith Leavitt's
Academic Contributions and Influence on the Profession”; October 2010
Center for Women’s Health and Women’s Health Research
Advisory Committee, 2001, 2003-2010
Expert panelist, 6 th Annual Center of Women’s Health Research Advisory Board
Meeting, January 2005
Undergraduate Appeals Committee
Fall 2009, Summer 2010, Spring 2010
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Professional
UW Madison Faculty Senator
History of Science Senator, Fall 2011-May 2012
Graduate School Research Committee
Fall 2008-Fall 2011
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues Committee
Fall 2009-present
University Book Store Academic Excellence Award Selection Committee
Chair, Arts, Humanities, and Social Studies Subcommittee, 2003-2005
Member, Humanities Subcommittee, 2006-2007
A.W. Mellon Foundation Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities
“Bodies and the Production of Perversion,” 2006-2007
“Reproducing Bodies: Technologies and Ideologies,” 2007-2008
Chancellor’s Scholars Mentor
September 2007-May 2011
Boor Review Editor, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
(October 2012-
AAHM Welch Medal (Book Prize) Committee, 2012
Fall 2011-Spring 2012
Local Arrangements Committee, Midwest Junto of the History of Science Society Annual
Meeting, May 2006
Local Arrangements Committee, American Association for the History of Medicine
Annual Meeting, May 2004
Manuscript reviewer:
Social History of Medicine
MD Advisor
University of Rochester Press
American Journal of Public Health
National Women’s Studies Association Journal
Oral History Review
Bedford/St. Martin’s
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Feminist Studies
Journal of Women’s History
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Pharmacy in History
Journal of Social History
The Historian
Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association
Gender Issues
Continuing Professional Education
Morrissey Oral History Workshop, San Francisco, CA; February 2007
Wisconsin Idea Seminar, University of Wisconsin, Madison; May 2003
Public
Panelist, “Barriers to Birth Control,” April 2008
New York Times Interview, April 2, 2007
Houston Chronicle Interview, November 20, 2006
Joy Cardin show, Wisconsin Public Radio, A History of Menopause in America,
March 27, 2006
Planned Parenthood Wisconsin, Featured in film, “The Defenders; A History of Birth
Control in Wisconsin,” January 2005; Talk-back panels at Madison and
Milwaukee Premieres, September 2006
Wisconsin State Journal Interview, November 17, 2004
Washington Post Interview, March 9, 2004
Miami Herald Interview, June 30, 2003
Philadelphia Inquirer Interview, June 27, 2003
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