All Outputs (72)

Women's Imprisonment and Penal Reform: Historical Continuities and Critical Interventions (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2005, September). Women's Imprisonment and Penal Reform: Historical Continuities and Critical Interventions. Paper presented at 6th Annual Conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies, University of Gloucestershire

No abstract available.

From 'Dry Volumes of Facts and Figures' to Stories of 'Flesh and Blood': Female Criminality in the Prison Narratives of Frederick William Robinson (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2005, April). From 'Dry Volumes of Facts and Figures' to Stories of 'Flesh and Blood': Female Criminality in the Prison Narratives of Frederick William Robinson. Paper presented at Victorian Criminalities Conference, Exeter University

No abstract available.

The Limitations of a Somatics of Resistance: Sexual Performativity and Gender Dissidence in Dickens's Dombey and Son (2005)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2005). The Limitations of a Somatics of Resistance: Sexual Performativity and Gender Dissidence in Dickens's Dombey and Son. Critical Survey, 17(2), 92-106. https://doi.org/10.3167/001115705781004514

This essay considers some of the implications of a critical turn from a concern with a 'political technology of the body' in the Foucauldian sense to one with embodied micropractices. I will contend here that a critique of social experiences that is... Read More about The Limitations of a Somatics of Resistance: Sexual Performativity and Gender Dissidence in Dickens's Dombey and Son.

Introduction - Dickens and Sex (2005)
Journal Article
Furneaux, H., & Schwan, A. (2005). Introduction - Dickens and Sex. Critical Survey, 17(2), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.3167/001115705781004523

This collection explores the still underrepresented topics of sex, erotics and desire in the work of Charles Dickens. Contributors draw upon and suggest new points of convergence between a wide range of theoretical perspectives including cultural phe... Read More about Introduction - Dickens and Sex.

When feminism collides with the politics of difference: the pitfalls of progressive filmmaking. (2004)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2004). When feminism collides with the politics of difference: the pitfalls of progressive filmmaking. In CorpoRealities: In(ter)ventions in an Omnipresent Subject (275-289). Koenigstein/Taunus: Helmer

Writing a History of Sensations from Below: Gallows Literature and the 'Last Lamentations' of Female Criminals (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2004, September). Writing a History of Sensations from Below: Gallows Literature and the 'Last Lamentations' of Female Criminals. Paper presented at 5th Annual Conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies, Keele University

No abstract available.

Representing female prisoners: problems in cultural historiography. (2004)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2004). Representing female prisoners: problems in cultural historiography. DISKUS: Zeitschrift Der Stipendiatinnen Der Heinrich Boell Stiftung, 13, 15-18

No abstract available.

'Reclaiming' Female Prisoners: Early Models of Rehabilitation and Prevention in the Work of Elizabeth Fry and Mary Carpenter (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2004, January). 'Reclaiming' Female Prisoners: Early Models of Rehabilitation and Prevention in the Work of Elizabeth Fry and Mary Carpenter. Paper presented at Gender, Crime and Culture: Feminist Crime Research Network Conference, Nottingham Galleries of Justice

No abstract available.

Philanthropic Experiments: Gendered Discipline and the Politics of Female Prison Reform (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2003, September). Philanthropic Experiments: Gendered Discipline and the Politics of Female Prison Reform. Paper presented at 4th Annual Conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies, Aberystwyth University

No abstract available.

Re-Writing Women's Prison History: Gender, Class and Authority in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and Sarah Waters's Affinity (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2003, August). Re-Writing Women's Prison History: Gender, Class and Authority in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and Sarah Waters's Affinity. Paper presented at Hystorical Fictions, Swansea University

No abstract available.

Disciplining female bodies: Foucault and the imprisonment of women. (2002)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2002). Disciplining female bodies: Foucault and the imprisonment of women. In T. Dorfler, & C. Globisch (Eds.), Postmodern Practices. Beitrage zu einer vergehenden epoche. Lit Verlag

Disciplining Female Bodies: Women and Social Control (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2001, November). Disciplining Female Bodies: Women and Social Control. Paper presented at Postmodern Practices, University of Erlangen, Germany

No abstract available.