History of the Gendered Body - Oxford Talks

History of the Gendered Body

Let’s discuss history, gender and the body in an interdisciplinary and intersectional setting!

Michaelmas Term seminars will be held online with Zoom. To receive the link please sign up to our mailing list here: historyofthegenderedbodyox.com

For more information contact: Catherine Phipps, Alice Billington or Clare Burgess at
histgenderedbody@gmail.com

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Alice Billington , Catherine Phipps , Clare Burgess
Timing: Fridays 10:00-11:30 (UK time) except for week 5 which will be at 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
Web Address: https://historyofthegenderedbodyox.com/

Friday 18 October 2019

10:00 - Hysteria Rebranded: Criticising PMS
Alice Billington

Friday 25 October 2019

10:00 - Binary Bodies: The Othering of Queer and Femme Bodies in Popular Culture
Sam Weber

Friday 1 November 2019

10:00 - Colonising Birth: Midwifery and Empire
Catherine Phipps

Friday 8 November 2019

10:00 - The Jupe-Culotte and the Haptic of Modern Femininity
Sasha Rasmussen

Friday 15 November 2019

10:00 - Radclyffe Hall and "Forbidden" Pockets
Holly Johnston

Friday 22 November 2019

10:00 - Historical approaches to the non-binary body
Rowan Streckfuss Davis

Friday 29 November 2019

10:00 - Beyond the Binary at the Pitt Rivers
Mara Gold

Friday 6 December 2019

10:00 - "In Praise of Mary's Hairy Armpits": Bodies and Religion
Grace Heaton

Friday 24 January 2020

10:00 - Listening in Common: Women Students at the Conservatoires of Paris and Petersburg in the early 20th century
Sasha Rasmussen

Friday 31 January 2020

10:00 - Masculinity, Queerness, and Victimhood: Constructing the Body of the Gay Male Domestic Violence Victim
Joseph Mcauley

Friday 7 February 2020

10:00 - Obedient Protector, Malevolent Beguiler: Uncovering the Figurative Woman at Sea
Morgan Breene

Friday 14 February 2020

10:00 - Kabaka Mwanga, Martyrdom and Sexuality in Pre-colonial Buganda
Brenda McCollum

Friday 21 February 2020

10:00 - World-Mother: the Maternal body and the Limits of White Feminist Internationalism in the Interwar Pacific
Joe Shaughnessy

Friday 28 February 2020

10:00 - Moving Women: Gender and Dance in 20th-century Japan
Alice Baldock

Friday 6 March 2020

10:00 - Controlled bleeding: Menstruation in Germany, 1918-1945
Emma Teworte

Friday 13 March 2020

10:00 - Women, War, and Work: Experiences of World War II in Colonial South Asia
Urvi Khaitan

Friday 16 October 2020

10:00 - "Ten thousand Millions of Fires kindling in my Head": Suicide, Masculinity and the "Wild" Body in England, 1750-1850
Ella Sbaraini (Cambridge)

Friday 23 October 2020

10:00 - Band of brothers? Manhood and the German Peasants’ War 1524-5
Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History (University of Oxford)

Friday 30 October 2020

10:00 - Methods Workshop: Researching Rape, Reliving Trauma: The Challenges of Emotionally Difficult History
Mara Keire

Friday 6 November 2020

10:00 - Trafficking in Refugees: Sex, Displacement and the Traffic in Russian Women in an Era of Total War, 1914-1921
Philippa Hetherington (UCL)

Friday 13 November 2020

10:00 - ‘My body costs five hundred rupees’: Women in the Labour Corps in World War II Bengal
Urvi Khaitan (University of Oxford)

Friday 20 November 2020

10:00 - Interwar Socialism and Maternity in New Zealand
Joe Shaughnessey (Cambridge)

Friday 27 November 2020

10:00 - Hysterical Women: Hysterical Negation, Psychologising of Women’s Pain and Endometriosis
Danielle Perro (Oxford)

Friday 4 December 2020

10:00 - ‘The Time of Storms’: managing bourgeois girls’ puberty in France, 1800-1870
Christina de Bellaigue (Oxford)

Friday 22 January 2021

10:00 - Performing Periods: Challenging Menstrual Normativity through Art Practice
Bee Hughes (Liverpool John Moores)

Friday 29 January 2021

10:00 - The History of the Black Gendered Body in 19th C France
Robin Mitchell (California State University)

Friday 5 February 2021

10:00 - Sex, France and Arab Men, 1962-1979
Todd Shepard (Johns Hopkins)

Friday 12 February 2021

10:00 - Reassessing Rebecca Clarke: Gender and Composition in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Leah Broad (Oxford)

Friday 19 February 2021

10:00 - "Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again": Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
Katherine Angel (Birkbeck College)

Friday 26 February 2021

10:00 - Marital medicine and the Robartes of Lanhdyrock 1630-84
Sophie Aldred (Oxford)

Friday 5 March 2021

10:00 - Title TBC
Jack Doyle (Oxford)

Friday 12 March 2021

10:00 - After Trans: A Roadmap for Recovering the Nonbinary Nineteenth Century
Rachel Mesch (Yeshiva University)

Friday 30 April 2021

17:00 - Radical Care: Visceral Histories
Sarah Knott (University of Indiana)

Friday 7 May 2021

17:00 - Hijabs and Hats in Interwar Algeria
Sara Rahnama (Morgan State University)

Friday 14 May 2021

10:00 - Feeding mothers: The sociocultural formation of pregnancies in a Sri Lankan migrant community in the UK
Kumeri Bandara (Oxford)

Friday 21 May 2021

10:00 - Yaws, Abolitionism, and the Political Economy of Health Caring in the Atlantic World
Katherine Paugh (Oxford)

Friday 28 May 2021

10:00 - Coeducation in British Universities and the Remaking of Gender Difference, 1860-1935
Emily Rutherford (Oxford)

Friday 4 June 2021

17:00 - Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France
Jessie Hewitt (University of Redlands)

Friday 11 June 2021

10:00 - Me, Not You: the trouble with mainstream feminism
Alison Phipps (University of Sussex)

Friday 18 June 2021

10:00 - Goddesses as Eugenicists: Early feminism, esotericism and sexuality in imperial Britain
Jessica Albrecht (Heidelberg University)

Friday 15 October 2021

10:00 - Processions, playgroups, and the police: inner-city womanhood in late 20th-c Britain
Jessica White (University of Manchester)

Friday 22 October 2021

10:00 - ‘Community in trans feminist spaces in 1970s & 1980s Britain’
Fleur Macinnes (University of Oxford)

Friday 29 October 2021

10:00 - "They Don’t Need the Money, Whereas we Do": Sex Work and responses to it in British Mandate Palestine.
James Sunderland (University of Oxford)

Friday 5 November 2021

10:00 - Fighting Stories with Stories? Reframing understandings of trafficking through radical contextualization
Julia Laite (Birkbeck, University of London)

Friday 12 November 2021

17:00 - Her Neighbor’s Wife: Marriage and Lesbian Desire in the Post-WWII United States
Lauren Gutterman (University of Texas)

Friday 19 November 2021

10:00 - "I am my own woman… I have overcome a lot of obstacles.": Mothers’ Experiences of HIV/AIDS Health Activism in Edinburgh, 1983-2000
Hannah Elizabeth (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Friday 26 November 2021

10:00 - Seeing Red, Feeling Blue: The Colours of Menstrual Blood in Advertising since 1960
Camilla Rostvik (University of Aberdeen)

Friday 3 December 2021

10:00 - "Love is not a crime": Curating the Resistance and Writing the Activism in Modern Morocco
Achraf Remok (Poet and Activist)

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Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark

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