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                                    FEMINISM AND THE BODY:

AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
 

London House, William Goodenough College,

Mecklenburgh Square London, WC1N

Draft Programme

 

 

THURSDAY, January 25 2006

 

17.00-1800

Registration
 

18.00-20.30:

Keynote address and reception 
Cultural Geneaologies of Anovulation:

Revisiting Abortion, The Pill and Feminist Sexual politics

Professor Judith A. Allen [History, University of Indiana]

 

 

FRIDAY, January 26 2006

 

9.00 - 9.30:

Coffee and Welcome
 

9.30:

Session 1
  a.. Photoshopping the Poetess: the Case of Letitia Landon
[Dr Julie Watt, Arts and Media, University of Edinburgh]

  a.. '"Rape", call you in': Investigation of 'Rape' in Shakespearean Tragedy
[Mika Sato, Drama, Royal Holloway]

  a.. Dissolving Bodies
[Dr Angie Voela, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, King's College London]

 

Session 2
  a.. Cosmetic Surgery and the Construction of the 'Normal' Female Body
[Dr Rhian Parker, Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne]

  a.. Theorizing body/technology interaction and gender performance: A case study from men's lacrosse
[Pablo Schyfter, Science Studies, University of Edinburgh]

  a.. Sports Illustrated: The Female Athlete as Representational Absence
[Dr Nicholas Chare, Art History, University of Reading]

 

 

11.00:

Plenary Session
Cornelie Usborne [History, University of Roehampton]

Body Biological to Body Politic: Women's demands for reproductive self-determination in the First World War and Early Weimar Germany 

 

11.45: 

Morning Tea

 

12.15

Session 3
  a.. Hen Parties, Embodiment and Public Drunkenness
[Dr Adam Eldridge, Architecture, University of Westminster]

  a.. "Watch me where I am unwatchable": Allegorical bodies and feminist discourse in Catherine Breillat's 'Anatomy of Hell'
[Ruth McPhee, Film Studies, King's College London]

  a.. "Meg Gets Naked!" - Exposing the Female Star in 'In The Cut'
[Lucy Bolton, Film Studies, Queen Mary]

 

 

Session 4
  a.. Snow White: The white ideal amongst Thai women in Pattaya, Thailand
[Krysia Sturgeon, Discipline?, University College London]

  a.. Rape and Lynching in Interwar America
[Dr Clare Corbould, History, University of Sydney]

  a.. Fantasies of Assimilation: Gendered Bodies, Raced Bodies and Desire
[Dr Catriona Elder, Sociology, University of Sydney]

 

13.45: 

Lunch
 

14.45:

Plenary Session 
Steve Wainwright and Clare Williams [Midwifery & Women's Health, King's College London]

Sex, syphilis and suicide: some reflections on Feminism(s), bodies, and the Romantic Ballet 'Giselle'
 

15.30:

Afternoon Tea

 

16.00:

Session 5, PANEL:
Interpreting Adult/Child Sexual Contact in a Feminist Context

  a.. Associate Professor Kali Isreal [History, University of Michigan]
Pathology or Pathos?   Charles Dodgson and "Repression"

  a.. Dr Lucy Robinson [History, University of Sussex]
Paedophile Information Exchange - Constructing a collective paedophile identity

  a.. Dr Hera Cook [History, University of Birmingham]
Approaches to Accounts by Men of Childhood and Adolescent Sexual Activity

 

Session 6
  a.. Title TBC
[Dr Catherine Kevin, History, King's College London]

  a.. Not all work out and washed up: What ageing can contribute to feminist theorizing on the body
[Claire Carter, Women's Studies, York University Toronto]

  a.. Ignoring the Biological Clock: The Role of Body Image and Self-Esteem in Understanding Fertility Perceptions of Women
[Jacqlyn Verry-Bake, Midwifery and Women's Health, King's College London]

 

 

19.30:

Conference Dinner at Turquoise, Red Lion St
 

 

SATURDAY, January 27 2006

 

9.30:

Plenary Panel
Feminism, Ethics and Reproductive Technologies

  a.. Professor Sarah Franklin [Sociology, London School of Economics]
  b.. Dr Isabel Karpin [Law, University of Sydney]
  c.. Dr Clare Williams [Midwifery and Women's Health, King's College London] 
 

11.30:

Morning Tea
 

12.00:

Session 7
  a.. Sybilla's Body in Miles Franklin's 'My Brilliant Career' (1901)
[Dr Ian Henderson, Australian Literature, King's College London]

  a.. Embodying the Modern in Australian Literature
[Dr Anouk Lang, American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham]

  a.. The Powerful Gesture of Seduction: The Explicit Female Body on the Victorian Stage
[Wenche Torrissen, Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway]

 

 

Session 8
  a.. Penelope's Space: Thinking Women's Migration Through the Reproductive Body
[Dr Irene Gedalof, Women's Studies, London Metropolitan University]

  a.. Polish Women Talk about NHS, Pills and Everything: Looking at on-line forums of Polish immigrants to the UK
[Anna Gruszczynska, Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University]

  a.. Contemporary Childbirth and Breastfeeding Practices in Slovenia - Contradictions in Situ. What about feminist thinking and actions
[Zalka.Drglin, Institute of Public Health, Slovenia]

 

13.30:

Lunch
 

14.30:

Session 9
  a.. The Things Women Do!
[Dr Rose Mbololwa Mbikusita-Lewanika, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, King's College London]

  a.. The Body Speaks: Women's embodied experiences of domestic violence during pregnancy
[Dr Gillian Aston, Midwifery and Women's Health, King's College London]

  a.. A 'Snip' in the Right Direction?: Vasectomy and Gender Equality
[Dr Pam Lowe, Sociology, Aston University]

 

 

Session 10
  a.. Dealing with difference: responses to the legacies of sexual difference feminism in Italy
[Charlotte Ross, European Languages and Cultures, University of Birmingham]

  a.. 'She passed the dildo like a baton!': a women's movement in transition
[Dr Zora Simic, History, University of Melbourne]

  a.. The Feminist Movement and Socio-Economic Empowerment of Women 
in South Asia

[Ayesha Aftab, World Health Organisation, Islamabad Pakistan]

 

16.00:

Afternoon Tea
 

16.30

Closing Panel to reflect on the conference discussions
  a.. TBC
  b.. Professor Judith Allen [Gender Studies, University of Indiana]
  c.. Professor Jane Sandall [Midwifery and Women's Health, King's College London]
 

For registration and information:                 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/menzies/events/confs.html 
 

Dr Jane Sandall
Professor of Midwifery and Women's Health
Health and Social Care Research Division
King's College, London.
Waterloo Bridge Wing, 
150 Stamford Street,
London, SE1 9NH
Tel: 020 7848 3605
Fax: 020 7848 3764
e-mail:[log in to unmask]
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/medicine/research/hscr/sandall.html

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