Critical Domesticities: Retro & Hetero with the Housewife of the Year (1967-1996)

McTighe, T. (Organiser)
Carney, G. (Organiser)
Hill, S. (Organiser)

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I co-organised this symposium with Trish McTighe and Shonagh Hill, Drama and Theatre Studies, School of Arts, English and Languages. We are now piloting a project proposal for submission to AHRC for funding in 2024.

Period	26 May 2023
Event type	Workshop
Location	Belfast, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	National

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gender
ageing
drama
history
RTE
archive
women

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The event will involve a mix of formal talks and informal discussions and will include artist Rachel Fallon and a conversation with the Housewife of the Year 1972 winner Jane Kelly, both of whom we are delighted to welcome to Queen’s. Schedule 1.00-3.00 Session 1: Framing the Housewife of the Year Gemma Carney, ‘From ‘Butterwomen’ to Farmers’ Wives and Exotic Dancers: The Hardy Housewives of Twentieth-century Ireland’, Shonagh Hill, ‘Housewives over the Years: Mid-Twentieth Century Irish Feminisms’, Trish McTighe, ‘Revisiting the Homely-sexuals: Framing Difficult Cultural Objects’, Artist respondent: Rachel Fallon. 3.00-3.30 Coffee break 3.30-5.00 Session 2: In-conversation with Jane Kelly, winner of the 1972 Housewife of the Year Competition, Chaired by Gemma Carney 5.00 Food and wine reception The event will culminate in SHC Presents... HOME a poetry reading on the topic of ‘home’, presented by creative writing students at the Seamus Heaney Centre, starting at 7pm. SHC Presents... HOME This event is a collaboration between the School of Arts, English and Languages, the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work and the Seamus Heaney Centre at QUB. The symposium is the second in a series of Critical Domesticities events led by Shonagh Hill and Trish McTighe at QUB School of Arts, English and Languages. This year they are joined by gerontologist Gemma Carney (Ark Ageing Programme, QUB School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work). This public event is funded with support from the School of Arts, English and Languages and the ESRC Impact acceleration fund and Queen’s Policy engagement.

Critical Domesticities: Retro & Hetero with the Housewife of the Year (1967-1996)

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Research output

'Her life within the home': critically examining domesticity through Ireland's Housewife of the Year competition, 1967-1995.

Critical Questions for Ageing Societies

Butter Woman, Farmer’s Wife and Housewife of the Year: tracing women in Ireland’s domestic food history

Towards a Gender Politics of Aging

Press/Media

Queering the Family

Calor Housewife of the Year