• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Alice Billington , Catherine Phipps , Clare Burgess
• Timing: Fridays 10:00-11:30 (UK time) except for week 5 which will be at 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
• Web Address: https://historyofthegenderedbodyox.com/

Friday 18 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Hysteria Rebranded: Criticising PMS
  Alice Billington

Friday 25 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Binary Bodies: The Othering of Queer and Femme Bodies in Popular Culture
  Sam Weber

Friday 1 November 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Colonising Birth: Midwifery and Empire
  Catherine Phipps

Friday 8 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - The Jupe-Culotte and the Haptic of Modern Femininity
  Sasha Rasmussen

Friday 15 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Radclyffe Hall and "Forbidden" Pockets
  Holly Johnston

Friday 22 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Historical approaches to the non-binary body
  Rowan Streckfuss Davis

Friday 29 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Beyond the Binary at the Pitt Rivers
  Mara Gold

Friday 6 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - "In Praise of Mary's Hairy Armpits": Bodies and Religion
  Grace Heaton

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Listening in Common: Women Students at the Conservatoires of Paris and Petersburg in the early 20th century
  Sasha Rasmussen

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Masculinity, Queerness, and Victimhood: Constructing the Body of the Gay Male Domestic Violence Victim
  Joseph Mcauley

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Obedient Protector, Malevolent Beguiler: Uncovering the Figurative Woman at Sea
  Morgan Breene

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Kabaka Mwanga, Martyrdom and Sexuality in Pre-colonial Buganda
  Brenda McCollum

Friday 21 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - World-Mother: the Maternal body and the Limits of White Feminist Internationalism in the Interwar Pacific
  Joe Shaughnessy

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Moving Women: Gender and Dance in 20th-century Japan
  Alice Baldock

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Controlled bleeding: Menstruation in Germany, 1918-1945
  Emma Teworte

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Women, War, and Work: Experiences of World War II in Colonial South Asia
  Urvi Khaitan

Friday 16 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - "Ten thousand Millions of Fires kindling in my Head": Suicide, Masculinity and the "Wild" Body in England, 1750-1850
  Ella Sbaraini (Cambridge)

Friday 23 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Band of brothers? Manhood and the German Peasants’ War 1524-5
  Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History (University of Oxford)

Friday 30 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Methods Workshop: Researching Rape, Reliving Trauma: The Challenges of Emotionally Difficult History
  Mara Keire

Friday 6 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Trafficking in Refugees: Sex, Displacement and the Traffic in Russian Women in an Era of Total War, 1914-1921
  Philippa Hetherington (UCL)

Friday 13 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - ‘My body costs five hundred rupees’: Women in the Labour Corps in World War II Bengal
  Urvi Khaitan (University of Oxford)

Friday 20 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Interwar Socialism and Maternity in New Zealand
  Joe Shaughnessey (Cambridge)

Friday 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Hysterical Women: Hysterical Negation, Psychologising of Women’s Pain and Endometriosis
  Danielle Perro (Oxford)

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - ‘The Time of Storms’: managing bourgeois girls’ puberty in France, 1800-1870
  Christina de Bellaigue (Oxford)

Friday 22 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Performing Periods: Challenging Menstrual Normativity through Art Practice
  Bee Hughes (Liverpool John Moores)

Friday 29 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - The History of the Black Gendered Body in 19th C France
  Robin Mitchell (California State University)

Friday 5 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Sex, France and Arab Men, 1962-1979
  Todd Shepard (Johns Hopkins)

Friday 12 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Reassessing Rebecca Clarke: Gender and Composition in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
  Leah Broad (Oxford)

Friday 19 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - "Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again": Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
  Katherine Angel (Birkbeck College)

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Marital medicine and the Robartes of Lanhdyrock 1630-84
  Sophie Aldred (Oxford)

Friday 5 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Title TBC
  Jack Doyle (Oxford)

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - After Trans: A Roadmap for Recovering the Nonbinary Nineteenth Century
  Rachel Mesch (Yeshiva University)

Friday 30 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Radical Care: Visceral Histories
  Sarah Knott (University of Indiana)

Friday 7 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Hijabs and Hats in Interwar Algeria
  Sara Rahnama (Morgan State University)

Friday 14 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Feeding mothers: The sociocultural formation of pregnancies in a Sri Lankan migrant community in the UK
  Kumeri Bandara (Oxford)

Friday 21 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Yaws, Abolitionism, and the Political Economy of Health Caring in the Atlantic World
  Katherine Paugh (Oxford)

Friday 28 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Coeducation in British Universities and the Remaking of Gender Difference, 1860-1935
  Emily Rutherford (Oxford)

Friday 4 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France
  Jessie Hewitt (University of Redlands)

Friday 11 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Me, Not You: the trouble with mainstream feminism
  Alison Phipps (University of Sussex)

Friday 18 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Goddesses as Eugenicists: Early feminism, esotericism and sexuality in imperial Britain
  Jessica Albrecht (Heidelberg University)

Friday 15 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Processions, playgroups, and the police: inner-city womanhood in late 20th-c Britain
  Jessica White (University of Manchester)

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - ‘Community in trans feminist spaces in 1970s & 1980s Britain’
  Fleur Macinnes (University of Oxford)

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - "They Don’t Need the Money, Whereas we Do": Sex Work and responses to it in British Mandate Palestine.
  James Sunderland (University of Oxford)

Friday 5 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Fighting Stories with Stories? Reframing understandings of trafficking through radical contextualization
  Julia Laite (Birkbeck, University of London)

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Her Neighbor’s Wife: Marriage and Lesbian Desire in the Post-WWII United States
  Lauren Gutterman (University of Texas)

Friday 19 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - "I am my own woman… I have overcome a lot of obstacles.": Mothers’ Experiences of HIV/AIDS Health Activism in Edinburgh, 1983-2000
  Hannah Elizabeth (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Seeing Red, Feeling Blue: The Colours of Menstrual Blood in Advertising since 1960
  Camilla Rostvik (University of Aberdeen)

Friday 3 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - "Love is not a crime": Curating the Resistance and Writing the Activism in Modern Morocco
  Achraf Remok (Poet and Activist)