CONFERENCE DETAILS
>>Feminist Forerunners: The New Woman in the National and International
>>Periodical Press, 1880 to the 1920s
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>>Manchester Metropolitan University, 24-26 July 2000
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>>At the turn of the century and beyond the New Woman played a significant
>>part in contributing to the complex social changes which led to a
>>redefinition of gender roles and a consolidation of the notion of
>>women's rights. As the personification of a cultural crisis, the New
>>Woman embodied the anxieties, but also, increasingly, the hopes raised
>>by the woman question. The stereotype of the 'ugly feminist' generated
>>by traditionalists in their attempt to defuse the political threat posed
>>by the New Woman gave way to the fashionable image of the modern woman
>>as New Woman writers succeeded in popularizing feminist ideas among
>>fashionable middle-class women.
>>
>>This conference addresses the steady rise in academic interest in the
>>New Woman and seeks to shift the critical focus from narrative
>>literature towards the international newspaper and magazine market.
>>What role did the press play in constructing and representing the figure
>>of the New Woman, and how did feminists influence and shape this
>>process? In what sense was the New Woman an international phenomenon?
>>How did the New Woman interact with other cultural and political
>>discourses and movements?
>>
>>Papers are invited on any aspect of periodical or newspaper literature
>>in relation to the social, cultural, or political history of the New
>>Woman and to the late nineteenth-century/early twentieth-century
>>politics of gender. Potential topics might include:
>>
>>The New Woman and the women's movement in Britain/Europe/North
>>America/Asia
>>The New Woman in France/Germany/Greece/Russia/Sweden...
>>The modern woman and the traditional woman
>>The New Woman in the conservative press
>>The New Woman and class/race/sexuality
>>The Revolt of the Daughters
>>New Men/Old Men
>>The New Woman and Decadence/Empire/Eugenics/Socialism/Spiritualism
>>The New Woman and alternative lifestyles/animal
>>rights/crossdressing/Rational Dress
>>New Women in the _Yellow Book_/_The Suffragette_/_Votes for Women_
>>New Woman or New Feminist?
>>The New Woman between the wars
>>'The Monstrous Regiment': women at work
>>Feminist anti-militarism and the press
>>'The greatest newspaper debate of all times?': Mona Caird and the _Daily
>>Telegraph_
>>Charlotte Perkins Gilman and _The Forerunner_
>>Sarah Grand and the woman's magazine
>>Olive Schreiner and the colonial question
>>Winifred Holtby and _Time and Tide_
>>
>>Please send abstracts of around 250 words for papers or workshops by 31
>>March 1999 to:
>>Ann Heilmann
>>Department of Humanities and Applied Social Studies
>>Crewe and Alsager Faculty
>>Manchester Metropolitan University
>>Alsager Campus
>>Hassall Road
>>Alsager
>>Cheshire ST7 2HL
>>
>>Fax: 0044 161 247 6374
>>Email: [log in to unmask]
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>>This conference is run back to back with the RSVP conference (20-22 July
>>2000) in London to enable delegates to attend both events.
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