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[ecrea] Gender Stereotypes in the Long 19th C_Symposium

Thu Feb 04 11:51:17 GMT 2016




Gender Stereotypes in the Long Nineteenth Century

A one-day symposium entitled ‘Gender Stereotypes in the Long Nineteenth Century’ will be held at Stirling University in Scotland on Saturday, 30th April 2016, with the aim of exploring the intersections of gender with class and race in the construction of national and imperial ideologies, and the fluid transformation of these tropes from the Romantic to the Victorian period as well as their legacy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The symposium will explore the impact of Edmund Burke’s familial trope and his ideal of female domesticity on the formation of British national discourse, ideology of motherhood and mother country, the effects of female domesticity when challenged by transgressive sexualities, queer identities, and Orientalist stereotypes related to women in the construction of British imperialism. Some speakers will focus on the destabilisation of gender boundaries both in literature and in medical fiction, where cross-dressing male nurses mingle with ‘unwomanly’ female doctors, and on the role of masculinity among surgeons and explorers in Britain and the United States. Stereotypes of military manliness and the role of emotions in sentimental masculinity will also be examined, as well as the dynamics of gender, class, and race in relation to British national discourse’s attempts to expand and construct the British Empire. By examining the ways in which the development and re-signification of male and female stereotypes contributed to constructions of national and imperial identities in the long nineteenth century, this symposium seeks to shed new light on issues related to race and xenophobia in contemporary Britain. A diachronic conversation that connects the past and the present will unveil similarities and differences, and will help to understand British identity as it is being renegotiated in the present. In this respect, it is significant to address the ways in which nineteenth-century gender stereotypes are being challenged or transformed by contemporary cultural productions, as constructions of national identities are being refigured and reconceptualised in the light of current social and cultural changes.

Confirmed Keynotes
Prof. Joanne Begiato, Oxford Brookes University, ‘The role of military manliness as an emotional catalyst in constructing English masculine identity c. 1790-1850’.

Prof. Holly Furneaux, Cardiff University, ‘Kind hearted gunmen? An emotional history of the Victorian military Man of Feeling’.

Prof. Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion, UAL, ‘Still not part of ‘western’ modernity?: Muslim women, dressed embodiment, and alterity’.

The symposium is funded by the Division of Literature and Languages (University of Stirling),
and by BARS (British Association for Romantic Studies)

The costs for attendees will be £ 20. To reserve a place please follow the link: http://shop.stir.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=8&catid=25&prodid=289 For more information contact the symposium convener: Dr Barbara Leonardi | (barbara.leonardi /at/ stir.ac.uk) | Literature and Languages | School of Arts and Humanities | University of Stirling | Stirling FK9 4LA | Scotland | Tel: + 44 (0) 1786 467576 | Twitter: @DrBLeonardi

Programme

09.00-09.30: Registration

09.30-9.40: Welcoming
      Dr Barbara Leonardi, University of Stirling

9.40-11.00: Opening Keynotes: Military Masculinities
(Chair: Dr Bethan Benwell, University of Stirling)

Prof. Joanne Begiato, Oxford Brookes University, ‘The role of military manliness as an emotional catalyst in constructing English masculine identity c. 1790-1850’.

Prof. Holly Furneaux, Cardiff University, ‘Kind hearted gunmen? An emotional history of the Victorian military Man of Feeling’.

11.00-11.30: Coffee Break

11.30-12.30: Gender and Medicine
(Chair TBC)

Dr Lena Wånggren, University of Edinburgh, ‘Gender instability in late-Victorian medical fiction’.

Dr Michael Brown, University of Roehampton, London, ‘Surgeons, explorers and masculinity in Britain and the United States, 1850-1914’.

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.30: ‘Mothers of the Nation’
(Chair: Dr Suzanne Gilbert, University of Stirling)

Dr Kerri Andrews, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, ‘Ann Yearsley and maternal feeling’.

Dr Barbara Leonardi, University of Stirling, ‘Motherhood, mother country, and migrant maternity ca. 1790-1840’.

14.30-15.30: Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race
(Chair: Dr Lena Wånggren, University of Edinburgh)

Dr Katie Halsey, University of Stirling, ‘Hannah More’s Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799) and Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1808)’.

Prof. Angela Smith, University of Stirling, ‘Katherine Mansfield: A colonial Modernist’.

15.30-16.00 Coffee, Tea, and Cake

16.00-17.00: Transgressive Sexualities and Queer Identities
(Chair TBC)

Prof Carla Sassi, University of Verona, “And then a queer thought came to her”: The destabilisation of gender boundaries in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair.

Dr Sarah Parker, Loughborough University, ‘‘Charlotte is evidently a pervert’: Reading the lesbian stereotype, ca. 1880-1930’.

17.00-17.45: Concluding Keynote: Gender and Orientalism
(Chair: Dr Barbara Leonardi, University of Stirling)

Prof. Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion, UAL, ‘Still not part of ‘western’ modernity?: Muslim women, dressed embodiment, and alterity’.

17.45-18.00: Concluding Remarks






 Dr Barbara Leonardi
Literature and Languages - School of Arts and Humanities - University of Stirling -
 Stirling - FK9 4LA - Scotland - Room D23 - Pathfoot
 (barbara.leonardi /at/ stir.ac.uk) Twitter:  @DrBLeonardi

 Gender Stereotypes in the Long Nineteenth Century Symposium
 Saturday, 30 April 2016, University of Stirling
 http://www.stir.ac.uk/arts-humanities/news-and-events/






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