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Workshop: ‘Biological Discourses: Science, Sexuality, and the Novel around 1900’
8th February 2018 @ 15:00 - 17:00
Digital Humanities Seminar Room, Queens Building, The Queen’s Dr, Exeter. EX4 4QH.
This multi-speaker, interdisciplinary workshop will feature the following papers:
Dr Charlotte Woodford (Cambridge): ‘Sexology and women’s sexual emancipation: Lou Andreas-Salome’s theories of female sexuality and her novella ‘Deviations’ (1898) as literary case study’
Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex (Cambridge): ‘Monism, Eugenics, and (the Limits of) Female Agency: Grete Meisel-Hess’s Novel Die Intellektuellen [The Intellectuals] (1911)’
This seminar is hosted by the University of Exeter’s Centre for Medical History and the Rethinking Sexology project, and is part of the Medical History and Humanities seminar series (details of which can be found here)
If you have any questions about the event then please get in touch with either of the co-conveners: Dr Ina Linge (K.Linge@exeter.ac.uk) or Dr Sarah Jones (S.L.Jones@exeter.ac.uk)