Colloque – Picturing women’s health, 1750-1910
22 January, 2011
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Draft Programme
(please note: this is not the final programme & details may change)
Organized by
Fran Scott, Ji Won Chung & Kate Scarth
Programme Overview
Picturing Women’s Health 1750-1910 Full Programme
Registration, Tea & Coffee – 9.00-9.25 – Humanities Foyer
Welcome and Plenary Speaker 1: Dr. Claire Brock
9.25-10.30, Rm TBA
Chair: Professor Jackie Labbe (University of Warwick)
Break 1 – 10.30-10.45 – Place TBA
Parallel Session 1: 10.45-11.45
Anorexia Rm TBA
Chair: TBA
Victoria Fairclough (University of St. Andrew’s) The Invention of Anorexia and the Medicalisation of Female Self-Starvation
Lisa Coar (University of Leicester) Waisted Women: The Cult of Anorexia in Victorian Literature
Fashion, Exercise, & Leisure Rm TBA
Chair: TBA
Rebecca Sundharem (University of Reading) Active Bodies, Independent Minds: Representations of Women’s Physical Activity and Emancipation in New Woman Literature
Clare Mendes (University of Leicester) Signals of Female Health: The Late Victorian Woman’s Press
Rachael M. Johnson (University of Leeds) Medical Cure and the Fashionable Sufferer: Women’s Health and England’s Leisure Resorts of the Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Centuries
Break 2 – 11.45-12.00 – Place TBA
Parallel Session 2: 12.00-1.30
Work and Labour Rm TBA
Chair: Joe Morrissey (Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick)
Kristin Gifford (University of Manchester) Jane’s Headaches and Fanny’s Exhaustion: Work and Health in Jane Austen’s Women
Tabitha Sparks (McGill University) ‘This is Woman’s Work:’ Kate Marsden’s Leper Project and the Sacrificial Healer
Armida M. Azada (University of Roehampton) Mary Brunton’s Self Control: Health, Wealth and Financial Wisdom
Individual Agency Rm TBA
Chair: TBA
Ruth Ashton (University of Leicester) See No Evil, Hear No Evil: Blindness and Deafness in Womanhood in Wilkie Collins’ Hide and Seek and Poor Miss Finch
Rachel Ben-Itzhak (Independent Scholar) Keats and the ‘Masturbating Girl’ in Isabella; or the Pot of Basil
Valeria Angela Cavalli (Trinity College Dublin) The Demon in the House: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s The Rose and the Key (1871)
Lunch – 1.30-2.30 – Place TBA
Parallel Session 3: 2.30-4.00 pm
Influence of Medical Knowledge Rm TBA
Chair: Charlotte Mathieson (Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick)
Alexandra Lewis (University of Warwick) Picture This: Bodily Sign, Literary Diagnosis
Cheryl Blake Price (Florida State University) Immunization, Child Abuse, and Female Disfigurement in Bleak House
Debrenee Adkisson (Southeast Community College) ‘A Rather Bitter Medicine’: The Rest Cure as a Form of Women’s Oppression
Imprisoned Insanity Rm TBA
Chair: TBA
Katherine Ford (Independent Scholar) Constructs of Female Insanity at the Fin de Siècle
Anastasia Chamberlen (King’s College London) The Punishment of ‘Unhealthy’ Bodies: England’s First Women’s Prisons
Maria Dorn (University of Hanburg) Women with a Past in the Victorian Novel
Break 3 – 4.00-4.30 – Place TBA
Parallel Session 4: 4.30-5.30
Beauty and Health Rm TBA
Chair: TBA
Carina Hart (University of East Anglia) ‘White with Rosy Cheeks’: Fruit as a Metaphor for Health and Beauty in Goblin Market
Andy McInnes (University of Exeter) Amazonian Fashions: Lady Delacour’s (Re)Dress in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda
Declining Health and Biography Rm TBA
Chair:
Chrisy Dennis (University College Falmouth) ‘Perdita upon her last legs’: Mary Robinson in Sickness and in Health
Ruth Bromiley (University of Leicester) The Madness of Olive Schreiner
Break 4 – 5.30-5.45 – Place TBA
Plenary Speaker 2: Professor Hilary Marland
5.45-6.45, Rm TBA
Chair: TBA
Wine Reception, Rm TBA
6.45-7.30
Conference Meal, TBA (On-campus)
8.00
Tags: Arts, Etudes des sciences, Etudes Genre, Histoire, Histoire de l'art