Conference programme - Friday |
| 1:00-2:00pm |
Registration and Coffee |
| 2:00-3:30pm |
Panel Session
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| 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
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| 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)
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| 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
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| 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?
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| 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
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| 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
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3:30-4:00pm
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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.
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| 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
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| 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
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| Feminism and Public History |
- Tilly Vriend et al., Institute for Women's History, Aletta, Netherlands
Core feminist texts in Europe online: the FRAGEN project
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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Progress to Toynbee Hall |
| 7:30pm on |
Dinner at Toynbee Hall |
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