Catherine Cooper (Newcastle University, UK)
Date: 12th March 2011
Venue: Newcastle University
Deadline for abstract: 01.12.2010; please send 300-word abstracts and brief bio to War-gender@ncl.ac.uk
More information: http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/warandgender
War has always been understood in gendered terms, whether from the perspective of the male-identified space of the battlefield or the traditional invocation of woman as territory to be defended and controlled. Representations of war, from posters and propaganda, to literature, films and paintings, have come to define, reflect and reconstruct traditional gender roles. From Attic Sparta, whose gender identities emphasised one’s status as defender or defended, to the landgirls and factory girls of World War Two, whose warwork was often ignored, gender has always played a key role in characterising warfare both historically and nationally. Continue reading