Marta Chmielewska and Natalia Jarska; Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Web)
Venue: Warsaw
Time: 14.-16.10. 2026
Proposals by: 15.11.2025
This three-day conference, called by the European Labour History Network working group “Feminist Labour History” and hosted by the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, aims to explore new perspectives in the study of the history of labour through the lens of gender and intersectionality. The conference builds on and moves forward the debates on and within feminist labour history which took place during the conferences of the European Labour History Network and the 2019 conference of the FLH Working Group in Bologna.
The conference focuses on the history of gendered labour from the perspective of the body and health. Historically, conceptualizations of bodily differences built on the understanding of gender, race, ethnicity and age have played a significant role in establishing the division of labour in society and related cultural imaginaries, as well as inequalities, hierarchies and labour regulations. Ava Baron and Eileen Boris argued that, “as a category for historical analysis, ‘the body’ allows for incorporating difference more fully, for it is one of the most powerful and pervasive cultural symbols that define who and what we are.”1 Bringing the focus on the (gendered) body into the discussions on feminist labour history, and drawing on the ‘bodily turn’ in the humanities and approaches from fields such as the history of medicine and health and sensory history can make feminist labour history more inclusive and enhance our understanding of the historical engendering of various types and forms of labour and gendered experiences of work.
We invite proposals for individual papers focusing on one of the following topics: … read more and source … (Web).
Scientific Committee: Eloisa Betti (Univ. of Padova), Eileen Boris (Univ. of California in Santa Barbara), Natalia Jarska (Polish Academy of Sciences), Leda Papastefanaki (Univ. of Ioannina), Eszter Varsa and Susan Zimmermann (Central European Univ.)

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