Meritxell Simon-Martin 

Research Student 

Education, Health and Social Care 

Email:

meritxell.simon@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

01962 827161 

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Expertise

Meritxell's area of expertise is gender studies.

Publications

Publications:

Forthcoming 2010: “Letter Exchange in the Life of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: the First Female Suffrage Campaign in Britain Seen through her Correspondence”, in Claudette Fillard and Françoise Orazi (eds) Exchanges and Correspondence. The Construction of Feminism (Cambridge Scholars Publishing).

Forthcoming 2010: “Concepción Arenal” (dictionary entry), in Tiffany Wayne (ed) Landmarks in Feminist Thought (Greenwood Press).

Forthcoming 2011: “El sufragio femenino en Europa. Breve estudio comparativo”, in Helena Grau, Jordi Mir and Mercè Renom (eds) Revoluciones en Femenino (Icaria/Instituto de la Mujer)

Conferences:

4-6 December 2009: History of Education Society Annual Conference, University of Sheffield: “Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: her Feminist Idea of Women’s Education”.

4-7 June 2009: 7th European Feminist Research Conference, University of Utrecht (Netherlands): “Unladylike” Woman's Rights Women and Press Representation: Victorian English Feminists as Seen by Punch Magazine (1850-1890).

12-14 November 2008: International Conference “Political Women, 1500 – 1900“, Umeå University (Sweden): “Middle-class Political Women in Early Nineteenth-Century England: Anne Knight (1786-1862) and the Anti-Slavery and Chartist Movements”.

11-12 October 2008: Journées d’études “Construire le féminisme: échanges et correspondances“, University of Lyon 2 (France): “Letter Exchange in the Life of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827-1891): the First Female Suffrage Campaign in Britain Seen through her Correspondence”.

22-23 November 2007: International Conference “Charities as instruments of social control in nineteenth-century Britain”, University of Haute Bretagne Rennes 2 (France): “’Seeking and Saving’: Rescue Work as an Instrument of Social Control and a Source of Feminist Consciousness in Britain and the United States, 1830-1840”.

Research Interests

Meritxell's main research interests include, women's and gender history, the history of feminism, the history of women's education, feminist theory, feminist epistemology, auto/biographical studies and epistolary narratives.

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

• PhD Scholarship, University of Winchester (2009-2012)
• Conference grant, History of Education Society, UK (2009)
• Scholarship for PhD under joint supervision,Ministère de l’Education Supérieure et de la Recherche, France (2007-20087)
• MA scholarship,Ministère de l’Education Nationale, France (2005-2006)
• Women's History Network (WHN)
• History of Education Society (HES)
• Asociación Española de Investigación de Historia de las Mujeres (AEIHM)
• Asociación Universitaria de Estudios de las Mujeres (AUDEM)