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