The Women's Library
celebrating and recording women's lives

London Metropolitan University

Conference programme - Friday

1:00-2:00pm Registration and Coffee
2:00-3:30pm

Panel Session

 

Reading Room
  • Naomi Hetherington, Birkbeck College:
    The Seventh Wave of Humanity: Hysteria and Moral Evolution in Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins
  • Judith Bourne, London Metropolitan University:
    Helena Normanton: An Undiscovered Life
  • Red Chidgey, London Southbank University
    Re-Assess Your Weapons: The Making of Feminist Memory in DIY Feminist Zines

Religion
  • Ruth Watts, University of Birmingham
    Twenty Years On: Rational Dissent, Unitarianism and women as citizens
  • Ruth Davidson, Independent Scholar
    'The New Social Outlook': Faith, Politics and Civic Activism of Quaker Women, Croydon and East Surrey, 1900-1939
  • Julie Carlier, Ghent University
    Feminism and Catholicism in continental Western-European historiography, reconsidering the terms. A case study of the transnational genesis of Le Féminisme Chrétien de Belgique (ca. 1900)
Life Histories
  • Erin Gill, Aberystwyth University
    Eve Balfour: Charismatic Leader, New Age believer
  • Jayeeta Bagchi, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
    Problems of Writing Women’s Life Histories
  • Amanda Milburn, Swansea University
    'The micro-study to complement the macro-framework': Merthyr Tydfil and the Shropshire Coalfield, 1841-1881
Politics
  • Marta del Moral Vargas, LSE
    The Feminine Socialist Group of Madrid, Spain (1906-1927): Pioneering in constructing an only-women political forum
  • Sheena Evans, Independent Scholar
    Janet Vaughan and Spanish Medical Aid: how typical, by comparison with her female medical and scientific contemporaries, was one woman's commitment to political activism in the 1930s?
  • Helen McCarthy, Queen Mary, University of London
    What can gender bring to histories of diplomacy and international relations?
Media and Space
  • Nancy Rosoff, Rutgers University-Camden
    Sociability and Space in Schoolgirl Stories
  • Caitriona Clear, National University of Ireland, Galway
  • Woman’s Life, Woman’s Way: Irish-produced magazines and their readers in the 1950s and 60s
  • Lowri Newman, University of Glamorgan
    Defining and Contesting Definitions: The Labour Woman magazine, 1911-1918
Women's Movements
  • Kirsten MacLeod, University of the West of Scotland
    You Play Your Part: Women's History via Participatory Media - A Glasgow Example
  • Maud Ann Bracke, University of Glasgow
    'Our first discovery was our housework'. The transnational trajectory of feminist debate surrounding housework: Italy, Britain, North America (1960's-70s)
  • Sarah Browne, University of Nottingham
    Responding to Working Women: the Women's Liberation Movement in Scotland
3:30-4:00pm
Coffee
4:00-6:00pm Panel Session
Reading Room
  • Sheila Hanlon, The Women’s Library Vera Douie Fellow / London Metropolitan University
    Cycles of History: The Bicycle and New Interpretations of Women's Suffrage History
  • Gemma Romain, The Women’s Library Vera Douie Fellow / London Metropolitan University
    Exploring Interwar Black British Histories within the Women's Library
  • Mary Coghill, London Metropolitan University
    'The Woman Clerk': the Journal of the Association of Women Clerks (AWKS) and 'The Women Worker': an alternative view of women's association and culture in the 1920s.
Sexualities
  • Naomi Lloyd, University of British Columbia
    Victorian Evangelicalism and the Making of Same-Sex Desire
  • Caroline Derry, London Metropolitan University
    Lesbians and legislation: the Criminal Law Amendment Bill 1921 and the Civil Partnership Act 2004
  • Tanya Cheadle, University of Glasgow
    Realizing an 'earthly paradise of love' in late-Victorian Edinburgh: the sexual ethics and intimate life of Patrick Geddes
  • Rachael Attwood, University College London
    Re-scripting Sexual Exploitation: The Belgian 'White Slavery' Scandal c1879-1882
Motherhood
  • Katharina Rowold, London Metropolitan University
    Johanna Haarer meets Frederick Truby King: Or, When is a Baby Care Manual an Instrument of National Socialism?
  • Katherine Holden, University of the West of England
    'She's difficult because you left her at this age': maternal relationships in upper-middle class families in early twentieth-century Britain
  • Angela Davis, University of Warwick
    Still a role for mother? The shaing of knowledge on maternity between mothers and daughers in Britain, c. 1970-1990
  • Meghan Goodeve, Courtauld Institute of Art
    'In some ways Mother, in some ways Communist': Sculptures of Maternity by Betty Rea
Feminism and Public History
  • Tilly Vriend et al., Institute for Women's History, Aletta, Netherlands
    Core feminist texts in Europe online: the FRAGEN project
Women's Movements
  • Margaretta Jolly, University of Sussex; Rachel Cohen, University of Sussex; Polly Russell; Lizzie Thynne, University of Sussex
    Sisterhood and After: The Women's Liberation Oral History Project Year Two
Politics, Colonialism and Race
  • Sarmistha Dutta Gupta, Independent Scholar
    Gender, Culture and Political Women in Late-Colonial India
  • Claire Midgley, Sheffield Hallam University
    Western women in eastern eyes: perspectives from a nineteenth-century Bengali women's journal
  • Carolyn Eichner, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Feminism, Imperialism, and Anti-Semitism in France, 1860 to 1914
  • Marissa Johnson, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
    Gendering the Immigrant Experience: Arab Women in New York, 1990-2010
Space
  • Carol Osborne, Leeds Metropolitan University
    The State of Play: Sport in Women’s History
  • Krisztina Robert, Roehampton University
    Constructing a 'Home Front' for Women: Gender, Space and the Female Volunteer Corps in First World War Britain
  • Natalia Sarata, Women’s Space Foundation / Fundacja Przestrzen Kobiet, Krakow, Poland
    Following in the footsteps of Krakow sisters of Virginia Woolf
  • Ritika Prasad, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
    Women, Mobility and Railway Spaces in Colonial India
6:15-7:00pm Keynote Speaker: Kathryn Gleadle Are We Nearly There Yet? Women’s History in 2011: Current Challenges and Future Agendas
7:00-7:30pm
Progress to Toynbee Hall
7:30pm on Dinner at Toynbee Hall