Laura Schwartz
Academic Profile
Laura Schwartz studied at Oxford and the University of East London before coming to Warwick, first as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, and now as Assistant Professor in Modern British History. Her main research interests are the history of feminism and radical movements in Britain, and she is now working on a new project 'Feminism and the Servant Problem: Feminist Thought and Domestic Labour 1880-1939'. This work focuses on the Domestic Workers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland (est.1909) and suffragette maids such as Jessie Stephen and Kathlyn Oliver, research for which has recently featured in BBC 2's 'Servants: The Real Story of Life Below Stairs'. Laura Schwartz would be interested in supervising postgraduate students working on nineteenth- or twentieth-century feminism, or on the history of gender and class more generally.
2012-present: Assistant Professor of Modern British History, University of Warwick
2011-2012: IAS Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Warwick
2008-2011: Career Development Fellow, University of Oxford
2005-2008: PhD, University of East London, thesis title ‘Infidel Feminism: Religion, Secularism, and Women’s Rights in England, c.1830-1889’
Teaching
HItba - "Feminism, Politics, and Social Change in Modern Britain", undergraduate final-year Advanced Option
HI323 - "Historiography", undergraduate final-year core module
Selected Publications
Work in Progress
'Organising Reproductive Labour: The Domestic Workers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland 1909-1914' (forthcoming 2013)
'Servants' Trade Unions and Feminist Debates on Work' (paper presented at 'Conversations on Kathi Weeks' The Problem with Work' Warwick University Nov 2012)
Monographs
Infidel Feminism: Secularism, Religion and Women’s Emancipation in England, 1830-1914 (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2013)
A Serious Endeavour: Gender, Education and Community at St Hugh’s 1886-2011 (London: Profile Books, 2011)
Articles
‘Freethought, Free Love and Feminism: Secularist Debates on Marriage and Sexual Morality, England c.1850-1889’, Women’s History Review 19:5 (Nov, 2010), 775-793
‘The Bible and the Cause: Freethinking Feminists vs. Christianity, England 1870-1900’, Women: A Cultural Review 21:3 (2010), 266-278.
‘Rethinking the History of Feminism’ (co-authored with the History of Feminism Collective), Special Issue of Women: A Cultural Review 21:3 (2010), 266-278.
‘Feminist Thinking on Education in Victorian England’, Oxford Review of Education 37:5 (2011), 669-682.
‘Women, Religion and Agency in Modern British History: Review Article’, Women’s History Review 21:2 (2012), 317-323.
'Rediscovering the Workplace: Review Article', History Workshop Journal (Aug 2012).
Laura Schwartz studied at Oxford and the University of East London before coming to Warwick, first as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, and now as Assistant Professor in Modern British History. Her main research interests are the history of feminism and radical movements in Britain, and she is now working on a new project 'Feminism and the Servant Problem: Feminist Thought and Domestic Labour 1880-1939'. This work focuses on the Domestic Workers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland (est.1909) and suffragette maids such as Jessie Stephen and Kathlyn Oliver, research for which has recently featured in BBC 2's 'Servants: The Real Story of Life Below Stairs'. Laura Schwartz would be interested in supervising postgraduate students working on nineteenth- or twentieth-century feminism, or on the history of gender and class more generally.
2012-present: Assistant Professor of Modern British History, University of Warwick
2011-2012: IAS Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Warwick
2008-2011: Career Development Fellow, University of Oxford
2005-2008: PhD, University of East London, thesis title ‘Infidel Feminism: Religion, Secularism, and Women’s Rights in England, c.1830-1889’
Teaching
HItba - "Feminism, Politics, and Social Change in Modern Britain", undergraduate final-year Advanced Option
HI323 - "Historiography", undergraduate final-year core module
Selected Publications
Work in Progress
'Organising Reproductive Labour: The Domestic Workers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland 1909-1914' (forthcoming 2013)
'Servants' Trade Unions and Feminist Debates on Work' (paper presented at 'Conversations on Kathi Weeks' The Problem with Work' Warwick University Nov 2012)
Monographs
Infidel Feminism: Secularism, Religion and Women’s Emancipation in England, 1830-1914 (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2013)
A Serious Endeavour: Gender, Education and Community at St Hugh’s 1886-2011 (London: Profile Books, 2011)
Articles
‘Freethought, Free Love and Feminism: Secularist Debates on Marriage and Sexual Morality, England c.1850-1889’, Women’s History Review 19:5 (Nov, 2010), 775-793
‘The Bible and the Cause: Freethinking Feminists vs. Christianity, England 1870-1900’, Women: A Cultural Review 21:3 (2010), 266-278.
‘Rethinking the History of Feminism’ (co-authored with the History of Feminism Collective), Special Issue of Women: A Cultural Review 21:3 (2010), 266-278.
‘Feminist Thinking on Education in Victorian England’, Oxford Review of Education 37:5 (2011), 669-682.
‘Women, Religion and Agency in Modern British History: Review Article’, Women’s History Review 21:2 (2012), 317-323.
'Rediscovering the Workplace: Review Article', History Workshop Journal (Aug 2012).
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