Fashion, Feminism, and Fear: A Symposium on Clothing and Power

In conjunction with an exhibition contextualizing William H. Walker’s cartoons satirizing women’s fashion in the late 19th- and early 20th centuries on display at Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, we invite you to join us for an interdisciplinary symposium focused on related themes with scholars from around the world.

With escalating discussions of the significance of gender, pressures for conformity within externally-defined expectations for one’s appearance, and debates over whether individual decisions endanger society as a whole, this material is deeply relevant for the 2020s.

There will not be a fee to attend, but registration is required. The symposium is open to all.

Sponsored by: Princeton University Library, Princeton University Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton University Gender + Sexuality Resource Center, and Princeton University Humanities Council