Programme of our study day: Women’s antifeminism in the usa, 19th-21st centuries (23/03)

Our study day on 23 March 2019 is fast approaching! We look forward to welcoming you in the “Salle de Colloque 1” of the “Bâtiment Multimédia” from 9AM to 4PM. Here is the list of speakers and titles to whet your appetites…

9:15-10:00: Hélène Quanquin (Université de Lille) : « Catharine Beecher’s An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females (1837), or Resisting Women’s Rights in the Age of Abolitionism »

10:00-10:45: Claire Sorin (Aix-Marseille University) : « A Woman Speaks against Suffrage : The Debate over Women’s Rights in Brother Jonathan, 1843 »

11:15-12:00: Claire Delahaye (Université Paris Est/Marne la Vallée) : « Resistance to Feminism and the Daughters of the American Revolution »

14:00-14:45: Cécile Coquet-Mokoko (Université de Tours) : « Black Feminism : a Form of Resistance to Feminism ? »

14:45-15:30: Annie Kelly (University of East Anglia) : « All Women are like that : the Tricky Performance of Womanhood in the Digital Antifeminist Sphere »

Seminar: “Gender, Language and discourse: theory and practice” by Lia Litosseliti (07/03)

The Women and the F-Word team is thrilled to announce its first seminar exploring the question of women’s resistance to feminism from the perspective of linguistics.

We are honoured to host Dr Lia Litosseliti from City, University of London, whose talk is entitled “Gender, Language and Discourse: Theory and Practice“.

The event will take place from 10:30 to 12:30 on Thursday, March 7th 2019 in room 2.44 of the Maison de la Recherche on the Schuman campus of Aix-Marseille University.

We look forward to seeing you there!