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Women Encountering Emancipation and Adversity in the 20th century – 14th March 2022

Facilitator: University of Chichester – Humanities Department Virtual Conference

Speaker:

Session Three: Dr Alwyn Turner, is an historian at the University of Chichester whose interests lie primarily in the history of Britain in the second half of the 20th century, and particularly in the interaction between politics and popular culture.www.chi.ac.uk/staff/law/alwyn-w-turner.

Chairs: Nicola Buckley and Abigail Exelby

Session One: 10:00-12:00

Censoring of Women’s Cultural Space during the Indian National Movement- A Linguistic Perspective. Atul Singh, Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati.

Women’s Military Training in interwar Poland. Was is emancipation or just patriotism? Dr Anna Nowakowska-Wierzchoś, The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History in Warsaw

The Ideal Mother: Chinese Women and Christianity in Late Imperial China. Rachel Chua, University College London

Overcoming adversity: Shining a light upon female cinema projectionists during the Second World War. Linda Pike, University of Worcester

Feminism, Humanism and Individualism: Dora Marsden and her female cohorts. Nicola Buckley, University of Chichester

30  Minute Break

Session Two: 12:30-14:30

Cobden sisters, Anne, Jane and Nelly, and their involvement in politics, both in and outside of the campaign for women’s suffrage. Anna Champion, University of Chichester

Lapierre’s limina: Gender, caste and contested spaces in postcolonial Calcutta [1946-50]. Titas Ganguly, John F. Kennedy Institute of the Freie Universitat Berlin. Pratiti Ghosh, Jadavpur University.

The ‘ambiguity ’of equal pay: Ethel Watts, ICAEW and the 1944 Royal Commission on Equal Pay. Dr Jane Berney, Independent Scholar

The Diaspora of Jewish Refugee Survivor Women into London 1919-1950, An Argument for Altruistic Humanitarian Aid Not Inimical British Policy. Abi Exelby, University of Chichester

30  Minute Break

Session Three: 15:00-17:30 – Speaker: Alwyn Turner: Music Hall Suffragettes

Vindication, Visibility, and Value: Women’s Work in the Feminist Press of Spain and Mexico, 1976-80. Caroline Enloe (C.J), Duke University, North Carolina

‘I shall go on until I have nothing left’: Women of the Ethical Movement 1900-1950. Madeleine Goodall, Independent Researcher

Emancipation, history and transcendence in the life of Elizabeth Herrick, a 20th Century British Suffragette. Jóhanna Jochumsdóttir, Rutgers University, New Jersey

State Feminism and Global Changes: Perspectives on Women’s Rights in Post-colonial Tunisia. Dr. Hajer Ben Hadj Salem High Institute of Humanities of Tunis, Tunisia.

Link to Abstracts: https://mailadminchiac-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/nbuckle1_stu_chi_ac_uk/EvQzOiNVgNVClBkDrKPgs4YBFWjbNX2C-wKTOz4rhLRPxw?e=hLky0s