Engendering Gender: Production, Transmission and Change 1450-1950

This interdisciplinary conference will explore concepts of gendered identities across the period 1450-1950. Breaking free of the traditional constraints of periodization, this conference will promote discussion that transcends period boundaries (i.e. medieval, early modern, long-eighteenth century, modern), and considers how far gender identities are modified by religious, political, medical, social and cultural shifts, or are punctuated only by sudden, limited, periods of change. In particular, 'Engendering Gender' aims to explore key sites of gender construction and the transmission of gendered norms, both public and private.