A leading figure in the history of sexuality in Britain, Lesley Hall will discuss the musings of prolific Scottish writer and social activist Naomi Mitchison (née Haldane) on Tuesday.
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Mitchison wrote more than 70 books in her life (1897 to 1999) in a variety of styles and genres.
The research talk will take place Sept. 16, from 2:30 to 4pm, at 2183 Vari Hall, Department of History, Keele campus. It is co-sponsored by York’s Department of History and the graduate program in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies.
Hall – of Wellcome Library, London, and University College London, Centre for the History of Medicine – will present Send in the Clones? Naomi Mitchison (née Haldane)’s Mitchison’s Musing on Reproduction, Breeding, Feminism, Socialism and Eugenics from the 1920s to the 1970s.
Hall is the author of: Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880 (second edition, 2012); Naomi Mitchison (2012); The Life and Times of Stella Browne: Feminist and Free Spirit (2011); Hidden Anxieties: Male Sexuality 1900-1950 (1991); and many articles and essays. She is the co-author of The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950 (1995).