CFP Reminder: Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830 (09/30/03; 07/14-15/04)
Update: Conference website: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~wmc2004/
This conference, jointly organised by Chawton House Library and the
University of Southampton English Department, will take place between the
14 and 15 July 2004. The event will be held at Chawton House Library, a
centre for the study of early English women's writing, and former home to
Jane Austen's brother, Edward Austen Knight.
The two-day interdisciplinary conference will explore the relationship
between gender and the object world across the long eighteenth century.
Over the last two decades woman's role as producer and consumer of goods
has become a leading issue in the cultural and social history of the
period, as well as in studies of literature, art and fashion. This body of
work has collectively pointed not only to woman's increasingly central
role to the burgeoning consumer revolution, but to the complex ways in
which the material world mediated the construction of gender in the
period.
The conference organisers invite proposals for papers or panels that
examine the intersection of gender and material production/ consumption in
the lives of real or fictional women during the period 1660-1830. Possible
themes include, but are by no means confined to, fashion; cosmetics; art;
needlework; gardening; furniture and furnishing; woman's work; the book as
material object; the domestic household; shopping; advertising; women and
collecting.
Abstracts for 20-minute papers should be no more than three hundred words
in length. We also welcome proposals for panels of three 20-minute papers
that focus on a particular topic. Abstracts and enquiries should be
directed to Dr. Jennie Batchelor at the conference email address:
[log in to unmask] Alternatively hard copies of proposals may be sent to Dr.
Jennie Batchelor, Department of English, University of Southampton,
Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, England.
Please note the deadline for proposals is 30 September 2003.
Dr. Jennie Batchelor
Chawton Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of English
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
023 8059 8386
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~jeb
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