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Body Biographies
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.
Date:
27 October 2015, 12:00
Venue:
The History Faculty (George Street), Rees Davies room
Speaker:
Jennifer Wallis
Organiser:
Kathryn Gleadle (Mansfield College)
Organiser contact email address:
kathryn.gleadle@history.ox.ac.uk
Hosts:
Lyndsey Jenkins (Wolfson College),
Kathryn Gleadle (Mansfield College)
Part of:
"Chronologies of the Body"
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Laura Spence
