Graduates
Gender and history
Convenors:
Natalie Thomlinson
Laura Kounine
The Gender and History Workshop covers all aspects of the history of gender, women and sexuality, across a broad chronological and geographical span. Recent talks have been on subjects as diverse as male witches in 17th century Germany, prostitution in 19th century Hong Kong and Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch. We are a very friendly and sociable workshop and are always happy to see new faces, and to receive suggestions for new topics for presentations and reading groups. Not everyone who attends the workshop regularly has gender as the main focus of their doctoral research, but have nevertheless welcomed the opportunity that the workshop provides to consider the historical role that gender can play in even the seemingly unlikeliest of situations. We meet fortnightly in term: if you would like to get in touch or give a paper, please email either Natalie Thomlinson (njt39@cam.ac.uk) or Laura Kounine (lk279@cam.ac.uk).
Programme, Michaelmas 2011:
We meet fortnightly on Wednesdays at 7.30pm in the Godwin Room, Clare College.
19 October: Welcome drinks and introductory session
2 November: Joe Day, 'What Women Want? Female Migration As A Means To Improve Their Marriage Chances: Fresh Evidence From An Analysis of the 1881 Census'
16 November: Adrian Williamson, '"As every housewife knows" - Margaret Thatcher, the popular press and the politics of gender, 1974-1979'
30 November: Laura Tisdall, '"All they’re interested in is pictures, jazz and men": girls and gender in institutions for juvenile delinquents in Britain, 1919-39'