IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1224: Approaches to Gendered Landscapes, I: Women Outdoors
Wednesday 7 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Karen Dempsey, School of Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Science, University of Reading Emma Bridget O'Loughlin Bérat, Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Leonie V. Hicks, Department of History and American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University |
| Paper 1224-a | Bounded Spaces: Devotional Practice in the Castle Garden (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life, Gender Studies, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1224-b | Women's Landscapes and the Circulation of Material Culture: Crossing Boundaries and Connecting Spaces (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1224-c | 'Upon the ground…was born': Outdoor Childbirth in History Writing (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Middle English, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | Interactions with medieval landscapes often appear male-orientated in medieval sources, from Brutus' foundation of the eponymous Britain to patrilineages derived from castle names to metaphorically feminine (virginal and untamed) lands awaiting male domination. But medieval women also shaped, curated and cared for the medieval landscape. Our two interdisciplinary panels explore how women, both historical and representational, took control of and shaped geographical landscapes and borders at a variety of scales. Our first panel investigates women's personal experiences of the 'outdoors', ranging from different expressions of devotional practices to aspects of personal pilgrimage to political land claims through childbirth. |