CfP: Retailing, Shopping and Gender: Historical Approaches (05/2013, Wolverhampton); DL: 22.02.2013

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Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) Workshop

Time: 15 May 2013
Venue: University of Wolverhampton
Deadline: 22 February 2013

The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) invites proposals for papers that explore the relationship between retailing, shopping and gender, in Britain and beyond. We welcome papers exploring either buying or selling, and focusing on any historical period.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Salesmanship and gender identities
  • Marketing, gender and sexuality
  • Gendered practices of shopping

  • Gender and spatial strategies of selling
  • Men, women and the economics of retail
  • Gender, shopping and popular culture
  • Entrepreneurship, credit and gender

To submit a proposal, please send title and abstract of c.300/400 words to Laura Ugolini at l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk by 22 February 2013.

The workshop will be held in Millennium City Building, located on the University of Wolverhampton’s City campus, just 10 minutes’ walk from Wolverhampton’s bus and train stations. For directions see http://www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=6856

For further information, please e-mail: Dr Laura Ugolini at l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk

Or see the workshop web-page at: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/gender.htm

News about CHORD events can now also be found here: http://retailhistory.wordpress.com/about/

Dr Laura Ugolini
Reader in History
Joint editor, Textile History
School of Law, Social Sciences and Communications
MC Building
University of Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton
WV1 1LY
E-mail: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk

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