Conference Agenda

Session
PS1D: Social Acceleration and Women’s Emancipation
Time:
Wednesday, 18/June/2025:
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Session Chair: Amalia COTOI
Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)


Presentations

‘I had no idea a scullery could be such a cosy place’: Domestic Labour, Social Hierarchy and Professional Women’s Identity in Institutional Spaces

Tabitha LAMBERT-BRAMWELL

University of Birmingham, United Kingdom



Home, Alone: Subversive Female-led Households in Walter Besant’s Children of Gibeon and George Gissing’s The Unclassed

Rosanne BROOKS

Southern Methodist University, United States of America



Revisions of Romance in Amy Levy’s The Romance of a Shop and Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern Woman

Katarina GEPHARDT

Kennesaw State University, United States of America



“The More Things Change…”: The Legislative and Literary Treatments of Prostitutes

Katie Peel

University of North Carolina Wilmington, United States of America