Gender in the Humanities

Aims

The aim of the group is to foster the study of gender relations in the arts and humanities, with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary exchanges.

We aspire to do this through

• Seminars, often on work in progress, to provide an informal forum for new work, and other events for both experienced and newer researchers
• Publication, bringing together people from different disciplines with interests in similar areas of gender studies
• Networking, keeping each other up in relevant and related fields outside our own disciplines

Conveners

• Helen King helen.king@open.ac.uk;
• Anne Laurence e.a.laurence@open.ac.uk;
• Gill Perry gill.perry@open.ac.uk

See people for full details of the steering group.

Women, Scholarship and Criticism: Gender and Knowledge, c. 1790-1900, edited by Joan Bellamy, Anne Laurence, and Gill Perry; pp. xi + 250. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000, £47.00, £16.00 paper, $74.95, $32.00 paper.

This is a collection with a difference. It is truly collective. Group work in a common workplace and an editing process that began with the project have produced a volume of discrete pieces that fully cohere. Even the book's editorial apparatus, such as a common bibliography and biographies of selected subjects, function as part of the reading experience. The postscript refers the reader to an available database. Altogether, the conception and contents of the volume are professional, thought through, and fully realised— editorially, pedagogically, and intellectually.

Victorian Studies 45 (2), 2003