Wolfson Fellow

Dr Cathy McClive

(email at cathy.mcclive@durham.ac.uk)

Cathy McClive specialises in the social and cultural history of medicine, gender and sexuality in early modern France. Her doctoral work on perceptions of menstruation in France c. 1495-1761 has generated numerous articles and essays, and is currently being revised for publication as a monograph. Her new project, supported by a British Acadmy grant, explores notions of expertise and the figure of the medical-expert witness in civil and criminal proceedings in ancien-regime France. She is also interested in life-cyles, sexuality and fertility and false conceptions.

Research Interests

• Early modern French social and cultural history
• History of medicine, sexuality and the body
• Legal medicine
• Women and gender

Teaching Groups

• Early Modern

Teaching Areas

• Health care and medicine in early modern Europe
• Society and culture in early modern france

Publications

Books: edited

• McClive, Cathy & Pellegrin, Nicole (2010). Femmes en fleurs, femmes en corps: sang, santé, sexualités du moyen âge aux lumières. Presses Universitaires de Saint-Etienne.

Essays in edited volumes

• McClive, Cathy (2010). Quand les fleurs s’arrêtent: La ménopause et l’imaginaire médical aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. In Femmes en fleurs, femmes en corps: sang, santé et sexualités du moyen âge aux lumières. McClive, Cathy & Pellegrin, Nicole Presses Universitaires de Saint-Etienne. 277-299.
• McClive, Cathy (2007). L’âge des fleurs: le passage de l’enfance à l’adolescence dans l’imaginaire médical du XVIIe siècle. In Regards sur l’enfance au XVIIe siècle. Anne DeFrance, Denis Lopez & François-Joseph Ruggiu Tubingen: Gunter Narr. Biblio 17: 171-185.
• (co-authored with Helen King) (2007). When is a foetus not a foetus?: diagnosing dalse conceptions in early modern France. In L’embryon humain à travers l’histoire. Veronique Dasen Gollion: Infolio. 223-238.
• McClive, C (2005). Engendrer durant les menstrues: devoir conjugal et interdit sexuel à l'époque moderne. In Le Désir et le Goût: Une autre Histoire (XIIIe-XVIIIe siècles). Redon, O., Sallmann, L. & Steinberg, S. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes. 245-263.
• McClive, C. (2005). Menstrual knowledge and medical practice in France, c. 1555-1761. In Menstruation: A Cultural History. Gillian Howie & Andrew Shail Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 76-89.

Journal papers: academic

• McClive Cathy (2012). ‘Witnessing of the Hands’ and Eyes: Surgeons as Medico-Legal Experts in the Claudine Rouge Affair, Lyon, 1767. Eighteenth-Century Studies 35(4): 489-503.
• McClive, Cathy (2009). Masculinity on Trial: Penises, Hermaphrodites and the Uncertain Male Body in Early Modern France. History Workshop Journal 68(1): 45-68.
• Dr Cathy McClive (2008). Blood and Expertise: The Trials of the Female Medical Expert in the Ancien Regime Courtroom. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 82(1): 86-108.
• McClive, C. (2002). The hidden truths of the belly: the uncertainties of pregnancy in early modern Europe. Social History of Medicine 15(2): 209-227.

Journal papers: online

• (2008). Gender and the Body in Medical Writings c. 1700-1830. Defining Gender, 1450-1910