Prof Anne Schwan's Outputs (4)

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.