[ecrea] Gender Stereotypes in the Long 19th C_Symposium

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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