CFP: Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830
14-15 July 2004
University of Southampton and Chawton House Library and Study Centre
Plenary Speaker: Susan Staves (Brandeis), Marcia Pointon (Manchester)
This conference, jointly organised by Chawton House Library and the
University of Southampton English Department, will take place on the 14 and
15 July 2004. The event will be held at Chawton House Library, Hampshire, 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: jeb@soton.ac.uk.
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 15 November 2003.
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