Women's Writing

'What is Women's Writing?' Network (@UniofOxford). Inaugural Conference 26th-28th Sept 2014

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....look out for the special issue of Angelaki Journal featuring a selection of the conference papers

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Well that's it folks- thanks to all that attended and a special thanks to @IWAHSFeminist for all her amazing live-tweeting!

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Gyler: poses the dilemma of how can we avoid essentialism in the maternal discourse but also avoid the dominance of the paternal discourse?

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L Marcus arguing we need to think more about the intersection of the psyche & the polis and the way we conceptualise the boundary btwn them

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@WomensWritingOx Natasha Alden on the queer touch across time in historiographic metafiction

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@WomensWritingOx We read nushu not for power, not for fame, because we suffer

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@WomensWritingOx Nushu womens script a form of lament to release emotion or to transliterate folk stories they have heard from men

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@WomensWritingOx ptofessor Fei-Wen Liu argues that womens script is not secret power but struggle for recognition (from men)

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Margaret Fell's defence of women's speaking through Mary's magnificat an early articulation of gender performativity argues Sian Cox-Brooker

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De Beauvoir and Mary Astell note that women come to wear their chains as a sign of liberty. Eve Worth at women writing culture conference

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@WomensWritingOx .Bama's Karukku (1992), Dalit autobiography of a nameless narrator described by Pushpinder Walia.

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Marianna d'Ezio describes utopian tale of all female island by Italian Carignano in 1770s based on Scott's Millenium Hall . @Womenswritingox

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@womenswritingox .Margaret Cavendish's strange and rule-breaking plays stage woman in a process of becoming argues Heather McConnell

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Should we shift our idea of what is legitimate and valuable from publishing to digital spaces?

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Agbabi: there is pressure on female writers to write 'literary' rather than 'trashy' novels- both should be considered legitimate

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Clanchy: Need to fund the arts in state schools

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How are class inequalities and public service cuts going to affect the future of women's writing?