IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 801: Anglo-Saxon Medical Studies: A Feminist Perspective
Tuesday 4 July 2017, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Rebecca Stephenson, School of English, Drama & Film, University College Dublin |
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Moderator/Chair: | Megan Cavell, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
Paper 801-a | My Other, My Self: Pregnancy and Maternity in the Anglo-Saxon Leechbooks (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Medicine |
Paper 801-b | Women and 'Women's Medicine' in Anglo-Saxon England: From Text to Practice (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Medicine |
Paper 801-c | 'An man ϸe sy mægðhades man, cnapa oϸϸe mægden': Configuring Virginity in Old English Medicine (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Medicine |
Abstract | Allegations of misogyny and sexual harassment against prominent members of our field in January 2016 caused a firestorm on social media and came as a shock to many Anglo-Saxonists. Under the leadership of ISAS and the Old English Division of the MLA, as well as grassroots efforts, such as a new mentoring program for Anglo-Saxonists, by Kalamazoo 2016 what had been a demoralizing time has been transformed into a watershed moment. Our positive, productive contribution to this ongoing conversation has been to propose a new volume of essays that takes feminist approaches to Anglo-Saxon culture, with both of those terms as broadly defined as possible. Our panel at Leeds will focus on the more limited topic of Anglo-Saxon medicine seeking to find the places where approaches sensitive to gender can open up new avenues of inquiry. |