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Women Writing Space: Representations of Gender and Space in post-1850 British Womenfs Writing
7th March 2009, University of Warwick
This one-day conference will explore spatial perspectives on womenfs writing from a range of disciplines, reflecting the scope of contemporary feminist interest in spatial configurations. The conference will address the issue of ghow British women writers represent spaceh, considering questions such as, how do women writers construct literary space? What types of spaces/places are represented in works by women? How are received notions of space/place interpreted, accepted, or contested? How do we theorise the textual spaces in womenfs writing?
GUEST SPEAKERS:
œRosa Ainley (freelance artist and writer, editor of New Frontiers of Space, Bodies and Gender)
œLinda McDowell (St Johnfs College, Oxford)
œDeborah Parsons (University of Birmingham)
œLynne Walker (University of London)
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