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Forthcoming Event

Women's Library : Study Days and Symposium

• Study Day: The transatlantic slave trade: women’s roles and experience
• Symposium: Women/Media/Leisure: Consuming Sex in the 21st Century

Study Day

The transatlantic slave trade: women’s roles and experience

Saturday 10 March 2007 from 11am-3.30pm
Tickets: £20/£15 concessions

11am: Autobiography or propaganda? The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself (1831) - Sara Salih, Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto

Mary Prince's History is the first life story of a black woman published in England. Following a long journey, Prince sought help from the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade and dictated her story to Susanna Strickland. Sara Salih assesses the reception of the book at the time and the issues it raises about the ongoing construction of a black canon.

12pm British women, the sugar boycott and anti-slavery politics - Clare Midgley, Sheffield Hallam University

Clare Midgley explores the leading role played by British women abolitionists in the boycott of slave-grown sugar, and examines how women mobilised their roles as household managers to political ends. The talk highlights links between the boycott and the radicalisation of anti-slavery politics, with a focus on Quaker activist Elizabeth Heyrick.

2pm Enslaved women's lives before and after 1807 - Diana Paton, Senior Lecturer in Caribbean History, University of Newcastle

What effect did the abolition of the slave trade really have on enslaved women in the Americas? With a focus on Jamaica, Diana Paton addresses the experience of slave women before and after 1807 and the increased concern about enslaved women's fertility and childbearing by plantation owners after abolition.

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Symposium

Women/Media/Leisure: Consuming Sex in the 21st Century

Saturday 24 March 2007 from 10am - 5pm
Tickets: £30/£18 concessions, including refreshments and lunch

This provocative symposium looks at the sexualisation of culture in the early 21st century. How has the music industry become so sexualised? What is driving the rise of sex in the mainstream, from pole dancing classes to museums about sex? What does the rise of reality TV and lad/ladette culture tell as about contemporary attitudes to sex? Is the commercialisation of sex more socially acceptable now than ever before? Speakers include Helen Woods, Tim Edwards and Esther Bott, with a keynote lecture from Angela McRobbie - full details are available below.

You can download:

• Consuming Sex Timetable http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/londonmet/library/h43192_3.pdf
• Consuming Sex Programme http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/londonmet/library/q24267_3.pdf

For more details go to http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/whats-on/events/study-days.cfm