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Colloque - Picturing women's health, 1750-1910 22 January, 2011University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Draft Programme(please note: this is not the final programme &#38; details may change)Organized byFran Scott, Ji Won Chung &#38; Kate ScarthProgramme OverviewPicturing Women’s Health 1750-1910 Full Programme   Registration, Tea &#38; Coffee – 9.00-9.25 – Humanities Foyer   Welcome and Plenary Speaker 1: Dr. Claire Brock9.25-10.30, Rm TBAChair: Professor Jackie Labbe (University of Warwick)  Break 1 - 10.30-10.45 – Place TBA  Parallel Session 1: 10.45-11.45  Anorexia Rm TBA   Chair: TBA Victoria Fairclough (University of St. Andrew’s) The Invention of Anorexia and the Medicalisation of Female Self-StarvationLisa Coar (University of Leicester) Waisted Women: The Cult of Anorexia in Victorian Literature Fashion, Exercise, &#38; Leisure  Rm TBA   Chair: TBARebecca Sundharem (University of Reading) Active Bodies, Independent Minds: Representations of Women’s Physical Activity and Emancipation in New Woman LiteratureClare Mendes (University of Leicester) Signals of Female Health: The Late Victorian Woman’s PressRachael M. Johnson (University of Leeds) Medical Cure and the Fashionable Sufferer: Women’s Health and England’s Leisure Resorts of the Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Centuries  Break 2 – 11.45-12.00 – Place TBA   Parallel Session 2: 12.00-1.30  Work and Labour Rm TBA   Chair: Joe Morrissey (Department of English &#38; Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick) Kristin Gifford (University of Manchester) Jane’s Headaches and Fanny’s Exhaustion: Work and Health in Jane Austen’s WomenTabitha Sparks (McGill University) ‘This is Woman’s Work:’ Kate Marsden’s Leper Project and the Sacrificial HealerArmida M. Azada (University of Roehampton) Mary Brunton’s Self Control: Health, Wealth and Financial Wisdom Individual Agency                                                                                     Rm TBA  Chair: TBA Ruth Ashton (University of Leicester) See No Evil, Hear No Evil: Blindness and Deafness in Womanhood in Wilkie Collins’ Hide and Seek and Poor Miss FinchRachel Ben-Itzhak (Independent Scholar) Keats and the ‘Masturbating Girl’ in Isabella; or the Pot of BasilValeria Angela Cavalli (Trinity College Dublin) The Demon in the House: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s The Rose and the Key (1871)  Lunch – 1.30-2.30 – Place TBA   Parallel Session 3: 2.30-4.00 pm Influence of Medical Knowledge  Rm TBA  Chair: Charlotte Mathieson (Department of English &#38; Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick)Alexandra Lewis (University of Warwick) Picture This: Bodily Sign, Literary DiagnosisCheryl Blake Price (Florida State University) Immunization, Child Abuse, and Female Disfigurement in Bleak HouseDebrenee Adkisson (Southeast Community College) ‘A Rather Bitter Medicine’: The Rest Cure as a Form of Women’s Oppression Imprisoned Insanity                                                                                     Rm TBA  Chair: TBA Katherine Ford (Independent Scholar) Constructs of Female Insanity at the Fin de SiècleAnastasia Chamberlen (King’s College London) The Punishment of ‘Unhealthy’ Bodies: England’s First Women’s PrisonsMaria Dorn (University of Hanburg) Women with a Past in the Victorian Novel  Break 3 – 4.00-4.30 – Place TBA   Parallel Session 4: 4.30-5.30  Beauty and Health Rm TBA   Chair: TBA Carina Hart (University of East Anglia) ‘White with Rosy Cheeks’: Fruit as a Metaphor for Health and Beauty in Goblin MarketAndy McInnes (University of Exeter) Amazonian Fashions: Lady Delacour’s (Re)Dress in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda  Declining Health and Biography Rm TBA  Chair: Chrisy Dennis (University College Falmouth) ‘Perdita upon her last legs’: Mary Robinson in Sickness and in HealthRuth Bromiley (University of Leicester) The Madness of Olive Schreiner  Break 4 – 5.30-5.45 – Place TBA   Plenary Speaker 2: Professor Hilary Marland 5.45-6.45, Rm TBAChair: TBA   Wine Reception, Rm TBA6.45-7.30  Conference Meal, TBA (On-campus)8.00