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SUMMARY:Rebecca Jennings (UCL)\, '"I simply rejected femaleness": Diana C
 hapman's narratives of gendered and sexual selfhood in mid-twentieth-cen
 tury Britain'
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DESCRIPTION:History Research Seminar\n\nThis paper will take the personal
  testimonies of Diana Chapman (1928-2015) as a case study for opening up
  questions about the entangled nature of gendered and sexual subjectivit
 ies in mid-twentieth-century Britain.  As a founding member of Minoritie
 s Research Group\, which published Britain’s first lesbian magazine in t
 he 1960s\, Diana Chapman narrated her story to several lesbian oral hist
 ory collections. While Chapman explicitly claimed a lesbian identity\, h
 er accounts contain several trans themes which point to a more complex u
 nderstanding of her own gender and sexual identity.  Teasing out some of
  these moments of discomposure and paying attention to the subtle differ
 ences between the versions of her story\, I will suggest that her testim
 onies provide evidence of the tensions in categories of gender and sexua
 lity in the mid-century.  Chapman’s attempts to narrate her self to othe
 rs indicate that\, far from being a historical moment characterised by c
 lear\, binary gender and sexual norms\, as popular narratives have portr
 ayed the 1940s to 1960s\, post-war British society was in fact grappling
  with shifting and uncertain cultural modes of understanding gendered an
 d sexual selfhood.\n\nSamuel Alexander Building\, A 201
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LOCATION:A 201\, Samuel Alexander Building
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