Anna Marie Hill
Doctoral Student in Literature - Anna's thesis is entitled ‘reproductive politics in the writing of British socialist women in the long fin de siècle’
Research Project Title:
‘Reproductive Politics in the Writing of British Socialist Women in the Long Fin de Siècle’
Supervisors:
Dr Ella Dzelzainis + Dr Kirsten MacLeod
Contact Details:
Email: a.m.hill2@newcastle.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- left feminisms
- women socialists & anarchists of the nineteenth & twentieth centuries
- marxist literary criticism
- new modernist studies
- experimental writing
- economic humanities
- reproduction
- women and labour history
Brief Outline of Research Project:
My project looks at the evolution of socialist feminism through fiction and non-fiction texts from the long fin de siècle, focusing specifically on how socialist women were representing reproduction in their various writings. Women like Edith Ellis, Gertrude Dix, Margaret Harkness, Katherine Bruce Glasier, Julia Dawson and Lily Bell from Glasgow to London were building on each other’s learning and experience to create socialist practices of reproductive healthcare in their writing and in their lives. They articulated alternative models of sexuality, family, and motherhood whilst using innovative literary forms, forms which help to imagine new models for women’s everyday life under capitalism. Through my research I hope to re-establish their legacies and demonstrate the profound and tangible impact they have had on reproductive access today.