Morag Martin, PHD

Books

• • Selling Beauty: Cosmetics, Commerce, and French Society: 1750-1830, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Articles

• • • “Wimples and Bassinets: Midwifery as Religious Calling in Call the Midwife.” In The Nurse in Popular Media, edited by Marcus Harmes, Barbara Harmes, and Meredith A. Harmes. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Books, 2021.

      “Disciplining the Bodies of Single Women: The Failure of Midwifery Education in the Gers, 1802-1839.” French Historical Studies, October 2021.

      “Attending the Birth: Obstetrical training of secondary medical students and midwives in nineteenth-century France.” Medical History Journal 65 no. 2 (2021): 197-217.

      “Midwifery as Religious Calling: The Struggle for Church Recognition by the Soeurs de la Charité Maternelle of Metz in the Nineteenth Century.” In Sacred Inception: Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth in the Modern World, edited by Marianne Delaporte and Morag Martin. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Press, July 2018.
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    • “ ‘Augustine De Baralle, insensée, folle, charlatane…’: A female empiric’s struggle for medical recognition in Napoleonic France.” In Women, Gender and Disease in Eighteenth-Century England and France, edited by Kathleen Hardesty Doig and Felicia Sturzer. Cambridge Scholar’s Press, 2014.
    • “Painting Artifice: Cosmetic Fashions and Portraiture in late eighteenth-century France and England.” In Fashion and Art, edited by Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas. London: Berg Press, 2012.
    • “Doctoring Beauty: The Medical Control of Women’s Cosmetics in France, 1750-1810,” in Medical History (July 2005)
    • “Casanova e Mlle. Clarion: Pintando o Rosto em um Mundo de Moda Natural,” in Fashion Theory: A Revista da Moda, Corpo e Cultura, edição brasileira (2003).
    • “Entrepreneur or charlatan? The commerce of cosmetics, patents and the medical profession in France 1750-1830” in Les chemins de la nouveauté: innover, inventer au regard de l’histoire, eds. Liliane Hilaire-Pérez and Anne-Françoise Garçon (Paris: Éditions du CTHS, 2003).
    • “Casanova and Mlle. Clarion: Painting the Face in a World of Natural Fashion,” Fashion Theory Journal (April 2003).
    • Personal Services Entry, Oxford Economic History Encyclopedia (April 2003).
    • Cosmetics Entry, Oxford Economic History Encyclopedia (April 2003).
    • “Il n’y à que Maille qui m’aille: Advertisements and the Development of Consumerism in Eighteenth-Century France,” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, Vol. 23 (1996): 114-121.
    • Book review: Liliane Hilaire Perez, L’invention Technique au siecle des Lumieres, in Economic History Review (Fall 2002).
    • Book review: Vincent Barras, Micheline Louis-Courvoisier (eds.), La Medecine des lumieres: Tout autour de Tissot, in Medical History (October 2002).
    • Book review: Mary Lynn Stewart, For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880’s-1930’s in Medical History, April 2003.
    • Book review: Patrice Higonnet, Goodness Beyond Virtue, in The Times Higher Education Supplement (August 25,2000).
    • Book review: Daniel Roche, A History of Everyday Things, in Economic History Review (August 2000), Vol. 53:3.
    • Book review: Michael Kwass, Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in 18th-century France, in Economic History Review (May 2001), Vol. 24:2.