The History Department at Monash University will be holding an an
Interdisciplinary Conference on Women, Gender and Sexuality in
Modern Europe on 19-20 July 1996. Conference Speakers will
include Sally Alexander, Antoinette Burton, Marilyn Butler ,
Stephen Garton, A. James Hammerton, Dorothy Helly, Iain
McCalman, Pauline Nestor, Alex Tyrrell, Terry Threadgold,
Judith Walkowitz,
The programme will include sessions on: Sexual Difference and
Masculinities; Women, citizenship and the nation; the History of
feminism; Visual and literary representations of women; Harem
encounters: women, orientalism and travel, post-colonial
literatures, contemporary women's writing, on women in the new
Europe; and on current developments in feminism and feminist
theory.
For further information contact Barbara Caine, History Department
Monash University, tel. no. (03) 99052197, Fax no; (03) 99052210
emaile: Barbara.Caine@arts.monash.edu.au