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Postgraduate Symposium: Gender History and the Worlds of Care

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Published on 01.09.2021 10:07

Postgraduate Symposium:

Gender History and the Worlds of Care

 

Online, all day, 13 October 2021

Organised by the University of Glasgow, Oxford University, Ghent University and Sabanci University

The Symposium is aimed at providing a stimulating and supportive environment for the presentation and discussion of work in progress by PhD students in gender history at the participating departments. Peer exchange as well as feedback by academics are central to the event.

Theme:

The gendered division of care roles, in private settings such as the family as well as in culture and the economy, has formed the object of thriving research in recent years. ‘Care’, as used by historians, involves the everyday practices of responding to the needs of those who are vulnerable, the ideologies and norms framing those practices, and the institutions through which care is organised at the societal level. As many historians have turned their attention to the history of practices, ideologies, and institutions of care, new understandings of the ever-changing and contested nature of care arrangements have emerged, as well as a new emphasis on the latter’s centrality to the economy, social stabilisation, and the gender order.

Gender and the construction of difference in the allocation of care roles are rightly placed at the centre of histories of care. We invite work-in-progress papers by PhD students focusing on any historical time-period and geographical region, and addressing any gender-related aspect of care regimes and practices – including (but not limited to):

-          Family formation and gender roles in the family

-          Childcare practices and childhood experience in a variety of care settings

-          Care for the sick and elderly: practices, institutions, gender roles

-          Care, emotions, and affective labour

-          Care and welfare in law and institutions

-          Care, sexuality, and the erotic

-          The boundaries of care and work

-          Care systems and social constructions/hierarchies of race and class

-          Feminism and the critique of ideologies and systems of care

-          The subjectivity of the carer; the subjectivity of the cared-for

 

Contributing departments:

Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity, Oxford

Centre for Gender History, Glasgow

History, Ghent University

Gender Studies, Sabanci University


 

LIST OF SPEAKERS

 

Oxford University:

Leena Din: Community Service, Mutual Support and Care amongst British-Pakistani Women in Middlesbrough and Oldham.

Polly Baynes: Women's work? A Gendered History of Social Work Practice 1889 to 2010'

Isabel Morris: Asian massage work in the UK: social reproduction and care

University of Glasgow:

Anna McEwan: Representations of motherhood and care in East German communist cinema

Eliska Bukujova: Body Servants, Attendants and Lady's Nurses: Patterns and Gendering of Caring in Victorian Advertisements

Rosie Hampton: Emotion, care and solidarity in 1970s-80s Scottish left spaces

Ghent University:

Amal Miri (Moroccan mothers and care in immigrant families in Belgium, 1960s-)

Sabanci University:

Begum Selici (Sexual health care: a gendered analysis of pain and pleasure)

Baris Bilgit: The Gift of Life: Prosocial Surrogacy, Reproductive Justice, and New Kinship

 

 

Any questions, please contact

maud.bracke@glasgow.ac.uk