Background
Nina was born in the United States.
Nina Rattner Gelbart
5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Nina Gelbart received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1974.
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Gelbart received her Bachelor of Arts from Harvard.
5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Nina Gelbart received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1974.
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Gelbart received her Bachelor of Arts from Harvard.
https://www.amazon.com/Feminine-Opposition-Journalism-Regime-France/dp/B01K3IRXUS/?tag=2022091-20
1987
(This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraor...)
This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution. In 1759, in an effort to end infant mortality, Louis XV commissioned Madame Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray to travel throughout France teaching the art of childbirth to illiterate peasant women. For the next thirty years, this royal emissary taught in nearly forty cities and reached an estimated ten thousand students. She wrote a textbook and invented a life-sized obstetrical mannequin for her demonstrations. She contributed significantly to France's demographic upswing after 1760.
https://www.amazon.com/Kings-Midwife-History-Mystery-Coudray-ebook/dp/B003AU4GHK/?tag=2022091-20
1998
Nina was born in the United States.
Gelbart received her Bachelor of Arts from Harvard in 1968 and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1974.
Nina is a writer of Feminine and Opposition Journalism in Old Regime France (1987). According to Gelbart, the publication evolved to walk a fine line between what was considered legitimate and what was being published underground. Margriet Bruijn Lacy of French Review calls the author an “excellent storyteller” and praises Gelbart’s assiduous research, even though Lacy claims that Gelbart uses too many arguments to make her points. Carolyn Chappell Lougee of the American Historical Review is also complementary, and praises the author’s balance of “biography, intellectual analysis, and institutional profile.” Choice reviewer H.S. Vyverberg calls the book significant for its survey of eighteenth-century feminism.
She also wrote The King’s Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray (1998), where she attempted to piece together what is known about Madame du Coudray in French history. June Weatherill of the American Scientist calls the book an “exciting read” and relevant for readers in many professions, including medicine, biography, and politics. A Publishers Weekly reviewer finds Gelbart’s method of presentation effective, using “brief dated sections that describe du Coudray’s activities in the present tense.”
She has worked as the professor of History and the History of Science at Occidental College, Los Angeles since 1975.
She was invited to write the introduction to a new translation of Fontenelle ’s popular 17th-century classic, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, and has published articles and book reviews in a number of scholarly journals. Her current research concerns two topics. The first is a study of six women of science in Enlightenment France: a botanist, an anatomist, an astronomer, a chemist, a Newtonian physicist, and a field naturalist. The second project is a study of Charlotte Corday, her dramatic 1793 murder of the French Revolutionary leader Marat in his bathtub, the consequences of that act for France’s politics, and the numerous and varied depictions of this fateful encounter by artists across the centuries.
Nina Rattner Gelbart is a prominent American professor and author of Feminine and Opposition Journalism in Old Regime France: "Le Journal des Dames" (1987), where she studied the roots on French feminism and its basis in journalism during the eighteenth century. In her other famous work ''The King’s Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray'', she was one of the first women, who have reconstructed Madame du Coudray's astonishing mission through extensive research in the hundreds of letters by, to, and about her in provincial archives throughout France.
(This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraor...)
1998Gelbart claims that the evolution of the Journal des Dames sheds light on the roots of French feminism and also influenced the French revolution.
