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

9:00 - 9:25 / Registration, Tea/Coffee
9:25 - 10:30 / Welcome and Plenary Speaker 1: Dr. Claire Brock
10:30 - 10:45 / Break 1 (short break)
10:45 - 11:45 / Session 1
11:45 -12:00 / Break 2 (short break)
12:00 -1:30 / Session 2 (3 papers)
1:30 -2:30 / Lunch
2:30 - 4:00 / Session 3 (3 papers)
4:00-4:30 / Break 3
4:30 - 5:30 / Session 4
5:30 -5:45 / Break 4 (short break)
5:45 -6:45 / Plenary Speaker 2: Prof. Hilary Marland
6:45 -7:30 / Wine

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

AnorexiaRm 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 AgencyRm 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 KnowledgeRm 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 InsanityRm 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 HealthRm 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 BiographyRm 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