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Power and Patriarchy

The British country house is a key site of power – but in the midst of global political organising and a pandemic that has thrown the future of such sites into doubt, the time to reckon with the networks and exchanges that have upheld such institutions is now.

Happening online on 25 & 26 January 2022, Power & Patriarchy investigates women’s contributions to founding, maintaining, resisting, and disrupting country houses, rejecting the purported 'scarcity' of women's lives and histories in such spaces.
This interdisciplinary conference will bring together early career scholars and practitioners to place the country house in dialogue with current feminist, queer, anti- and decolonial scholarship. We invite proposals for 15-20-minute presentations of any format. We welcome full panel proposals as well as roundtable discussions, experimental and creative submissions. Proposals might engage with, but are not limited to:

• Gendered spaces in the country house
• Queering women’s lives and domesticities
• Women’s political economies
• Working-class women and the country house
• Women’s roles in colonial and imperial exchange
• Women and knowledge production
• Building more inclusive histories of the country house

Please send an abstract of max. 250 words with a short bio to powerandpatriarchy@gmail.com by Friday 19th November 2021.

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