WOMEN AND WORK CULTURE 1850-1950 Saturday 2nd November - Sunday 3rd November 2002 Confirmed speakers: Mary Eagleton, Judy Giles, Eleanor Gordon, Jim McMillan, Rosemary O'Day, Philippa Levine, Pat Thane, Deborah Thom, Daniel Walkowitz, Maggie

WOMEN AND WORK CULTURE 1850-1950
Saturday 2nd November - Sunday 3rd November 2002

Confirmed speakers:
Mary Eagleton, Judy Giles, Eleanor Gordon, Jim McMillan, Rosemary O'Day,

Philippa Levine, Pat Thane, Deborah Thom, Daniel Walkowitz, Maggie Walsh.


This 2-day conference, to be held at Leeds Metropolitan University, U.K., aims to create a forum for the development of comparative perspectives. Its main focus will be Europe (including Britain) and North America, although we would welcome contributions on other geographical locations that engage with the central themes:

· How have women created occupational and professional identities in the historical past?
· How have they negotiated cultural, legal and institutional practices that are masculine in derivation?
· How have women created 'feminine' or 'feminist' practices and environments?
· How has work been integrated with domestic responsibilities and identities?
· For which groups of women has the term 'career' been meaningful?
· How has women's work been constructed and represented within wider cultural fields?

Proposals (of approximately 300 words) should be submitted by Friday 28th June 2002 to:

Dr Krista Cowman & Dr Louise Jackson, School of
Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, Calverley Street, Leeds, LS1 3HE


For further details see http://www.lmu.ac.uk/ces/cs