Participants are invited to read one or more of the following texts – available from the CGIS website (cgis.modhist.ox.ac.uk)

This session will begin with an introduction to the Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity.
▪ Seth Koven: ‘Body Biographies in War and Peace’, The Match Girl and The Heiress (Oxford, 2014) pages 184 – 237
▪ Julia Laite: ‘The Marginal and the Monstrous: The ‘Voices’ of Prostitutes and Traffickers in Modern History’ (blog post on manyheadedmonster.wordpress.com).
▪ Sara Horrell, David Meredith and Deborah Oxley: ‘Measuring misery: Body mass, ageing and gender inequality in Victorian London’, Explorations in Economic History 46(2009), pages 93–119.