Women, Work and Value: Europe 1945-2015
AHRC-funded Network www.bristol.ac.uk/arts.research/women-work
Call for Papers:
Workshop 2: ?The Value of Women?s Work: Between the Subjective and the
Economic?
24-25 October 2014, European University Institute, Florence
Keynote speakers:
Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics at the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst. She is the author of, among many other books,
For Love and Money: Care Provision in the United States (Russell Sage,
2012), Greed, Lust and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas (OUP, 2009)
and Family Time: The Social Organization of Care (Routledge, 2004).
Diane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture and Head of
Film Studies at University College Dublin. She is the author, editor
or co-editor of nine books, the most recent of which is Gendering the
Recession: Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity (with Yvonne
Tasker, Duke UP, 2014).
Women and men attach all kinds of values to the range of activities
which they refer to as work. Such subjective evaluations of work are
shaped by and exist in tension with cultural representations of work,
and the value of work as defined in economic terms and academic and
public debate. This workshop focuses on the tensions between
individual and public valuations of work, and explores the ways in
which the gendered construction of work sheds light on these tensions.
We particularly welcome papers which reach beyond the usual
distinctions between economic, social and cultural history. In what
ways are subjective valuations part of wider political, academic and
socio-economic debate on women?s work and work generally, and what
kinds of tensions emerge? How do individuals and societies distinguish
between work and non-work? How is care work experienced, represented
and valued? How can an analysis of gender relationships and identities
shed light on the values attached to work and on changes over time and
across space?
Papers may be theoretical, or deal with one or more case studies drawn
from the second half of the 20th Century up to the present. While our
prime focus lies with Europe, papers may go beyond Europe to compare
with other parts of the world.
Please send your proposal to Hannah-Marie Chidwick
[[log in to unmask]] by 1 July 2014. It should include a short
biographical statement with contact details; a short statement
explaining your interest in the workshop and detailing the ways in
which your paper transcends disciplinary or conceptual boundaries (ca.
100 words); and a paper abstract (ca. 200 words).
All proposals are subject to a review process. You will be notified by
1 August 2014. Some
contribution towards travel and accommodation, in particular for
postgraduates and junior academics, will be available. We plan to
publish selected papers in a leading interdisciplinary
journal.
This is the second workshop of four, forming part of the AHRC-funded
Network ?Women, Work and
Value?. A call for papers for our third workshop, ?The Politics of
Gender, Work and Value?, to be held at the Central European University
in Budapest in March 2015, will be published shortly.
Dr Josie McLellan, University of Bristol
Dr Maud Bracke, University of Glasgow
Dr Rebecca Clifford, University of Swansea
Dr Celia Donert, University of Liverpool
Dr. Ruth Glynn, University of Bristol
Dr Selina Todd, University of Oxford
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