Fireside Chat: Is Coral Feminist?: The Coded Meaning of Coral in 19th-century Women’s Writings

Name: Fireside Chat: Is Coral Feminist?: The Coded Meaning of Coral in 19th-century Women’s Writings
Start: 2021-3-25T19:00-4:00
End: 2021-3-25T20:00-4:00

25mar7:00 pm8:00 pmFireside Chat: Is Coral Feminist?: The Coded Meaning of Coral in 19th-century Women’s Writings

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Women have been comparing women’s bodies to coral, and women’s labor to the act of reef-making, for centuries. What’s the thinking behind this analogy? In this talk, Michele Navakas will discuss a range of overlooked writings by 19th-century U.S. women who turned repeatedly to the process of coral formation to tell one another and their supporters how to build a better polity – one that expands by sustaining others, rather than displacing them.

Sponsored by The Davida T. Deutsch Program in Women’s History

Michele Navakas, Associate Professor of English, Miami University of Ohio
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(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT-04:00)

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