International workshop - Feminized: A New Literary History of Women's Work

In May 2023 the Feminized project (Emily Hogg, Charlotte Johanne Fabricius and Ida Aaskov Dolmer) organised a workshop called Feminized: A New Literary History of Women's Work. The workshop brought together scholars based in Denmark, the UK and the US to discuss topics including feminist bibliography, comics and activism, the afterlives of Virginia Woolf’s Judith Shakespeare, radical motherhood literature, and the relationship between domestic labour and domestic violence in contemporary Caribbean novels, as well as writers including Adrienne Rich, Buchi Emecheta and George Eliot. Professor Tina Lupton (Copenhagen/Warwick) gave a keynote on Hannah Arendt, Helen Garner and Wages for Housework. After presenting her work on the Karen Brahe library, Lucie Duggan (SDU) guided the participants around the library’s original home at Odense Adelige Jomfrukloster - a fascinating local site in which to think about women’s work across time. The workshop was funded by the Carlsberg Foundation.

Click here for the conference program (pdf).