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

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Conference programme - Sunday

9:00-9:30 am              Registration & Coffee

9:30-11:30 am                        Panel Session

Reading Room:                       

  • Anne Summers, Birkbeck College

Needles in Haystacks - researching relations between Christian and Jewish women in England c. 1880-1940

  • Chloe Kroeter, King’s College, Cambridge

Images of Force Feeding and the Construction/Destruction of the Activist Body in the Edwardian Suffrage Movement

  • Mary Clancy, National University of Ireland, Galway

Analysis of Philippa Fawcett’s Diary of a visit to Ireland with her mother (MGF). 4-14 April, 1893. (7MGF/B/07)

Life Histories:             

  • Paul Merchant, British Library

Laboratories and Landscapes: the life stories of female Earth scientists

  • Jaci Eisenberg, Graduate Institute, Geneva

Towards a prosopography of American women in international Geneva, 1919-1939

  • Anne Devenish, University of Oxford

Relocating the nation within transnational histories: an alternative reading of Indian citizenship in the international careers of Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (WHO) and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (UN)

Sexualities:     

  • Susan Morgan, University of Chichester

Sex and Common-Sense: Maude Royden and the making of modern sexuality

  • Timothy Jones, University of Glamorgan

Union in 'one-flesh': Changing dynamics of subordination in Anglican marriage discourse before 1957

  • Jacqueline deVries, Augsburg College

Youth and Sex:  Science, Religion and Sex Education in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

Ethnicity/Race:            

  • Jane Carey, Monash University

Promoting Whiteness: Race, Science and the Middle-class Women’s Movement in Australia, Transnational Perspectives 1902-1930s

  • Anna Cole, Goldsmiths, University of London

Twenty years on: Feminism’s ‘three body problem’

  • Natalie Thomlinson, University of Cambridge

The feminist who wasn’t there: ‘race’, the second wave, and the politics of history

Politics:                       

  • Ruth Cohen, Independent Scholar

Bringing the new Jerusalem to Lancashire: ideals and activism in the Women's Co-operative Guild in the 1890s

  • Vanessa Sherriffs, University of Northumbria

Birth Control and Labour's Silence, 1918-1939

  • Ruth Mather, University of York

'We are but women': The Emergence of Female Reform Societies in Early Industrial Lancashire

  • Bridget Yates, University of Gloucestershire

'Fairy Lamps in a Dark Field': The Women's Institutes and Village History in the Interwar Period

Women’s Movements

  • Natalia Gafizova, Ivanova State University

Patriotism and internationalism in self-conception of Russian women's movements: national and transnational levels

  • Claire Marie Quentin, Trinity College Dublin

Revising the historical narrative: women and political activism in mid-twentieth century Germany and Ireland

  • Sophie Skelton, University of Birmingham

British Women's Organisations' Contribution to the International Women's Movement, 1945-1965

11:30 am-12:00 pm    Coffee

12:00-12:45 pm          Keynote & Farewell: Caroline Bressey Geographies of Belonging: White Women and Black History

 
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