WOMEN, MONEY AND MARKETS 1600-1900
This annually-held conference addresses the role of women in consumerism, shopping, global trade, domestic trade, markets (literary and otherwise), currency, and varying practices of exchange. The conference is interdisciplinary in nature, bridging literature, material culture, gender studies, theatre and economic history, and aims to relate the debates of the period to modern-day issues about the presence and position of women in the economy, the market and the media.
This year we are holding the conference in Rethymno, Crete, at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies – and it will be hybrid. We welcome contributions in the form of individual papers or panels and roundtables on:
· Varying practices of women associated with currency, global and/or domestic markets and marketability
· Material practices associated with value, exchange and/or female creativity
· Women as producers and/or consumers in the literary or other marketplaces (including, but not limited to, food, clothing, agriculture and raw materials)
· Representations of women at work or women’s involvement in:
o Trade, business and industry
o Professional services (e.g. law, finance, hospitality and the media)
o Domestic service
o The rural economy
o The stock market and speculation
o The literary marketplace (past and present)