Saturday 7 March 2009
Venue: Room 273, Stewart House, University of London, Russell Square.
The keynote paper will be followed by informal discussion and exchange of information, on a range of key themes:
women and science ~ women and the plastic arts ~ girlhood, play, toys ~ women and materiality
Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace is Professor of English at Boston College, MA. Her publications include Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the 18th Century (1997) and Their Father's Daughters: Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Patriarchal Complicity (1991). Professor Kowaleski-Wallace was co-editor of Refiguring the Father: New Feminist Readings of Patriarchy (1990) and editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory. Her keynote paper for the 2009 Workshop will include discussion of the work of Anna Morandi and Tussaud, the miniature wax portrait made by women, and wax dolls. It will also explore why women are often discussed using wax as a metaphor.
To register for this event, please download and send us a completed Registration Form at your earliest convenience.
For further details please contact Dr. Sarah Oliver.