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Kathryn Gleadle

Professor
Kathryn Gleadle
Born
Kathryn Jane Gleadle
NationalityBritish
TitleProfessor of Gender and Women's History
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Warwick
ThesisThe early feminists: radical Unitarians and the emergence of the women's rights movement, c.1831-1851 (1993)
Doctoral advisorFred Reid
Academic work
InstitutionsLondon Guildhall University
University College, Oxford
Mansfield College, Oxford

Kathryn Jane Gleadle is a British historian and academic specialising in the experiences of British women in the late 18th and 19th centuries. She was Fellow and Tutor in History at Mansfield College, Oxford from 2004 to 2023. In 2015, she was appointed a Professor of Gender and Women's History by the University of Oxford.

Career

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Gleadle completed her undergraduate and doctoral studies at the University of Warwick. Her doctoral thesis, supervised by Fred Reid, was entitled The early feminists: radical Unitarians and the emergence of the women's rights movement, c.1831-1851 and was completed in 1993.[1] After obtaining her doctorate she began a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at London Guildhall University.[2] She was a fellow of University College, Oxford, from 2002 to 2004, when she was appointed a fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford, and a university lecturer in modern history, appointments made permanent in 2009.[3][4][5] In 2015, she was awarded the title of Professor of Gender and Women's History by the University of Oxford.[6] Gleadle retired in 2023.[7]

Honours

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Gleadle was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2004.[8]

Works

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Gleadle's research focuses on women's experiences in 18th- and 19th-century Britain, especially with reference to political culture, while she also engages in debates about feminist and gender history theory. Her studies have also focused on the role that Victorian women played in the process of globalisation, and on the way British children have been involved in political processes. Gleadle's published works include:[9]

  • "The juvenile enlightenment: British children and youth during the French Revolution", Past and Present, vol. 233, issue 1 (2016), pp. 143–184
  • "'The riches and treasures of other countries': women, empire and maritime expertise in early Victorian London", Gender & History, vol. 25, no. 1 (2013), pp. 7–26
  • "Gentry, Gender and the Moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Provincial England" in Rappoport, J., and Dalley, L., Economic Women: Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture (Ohio State University, 2013)
  • "The imagined communities of women's history: current debates and emerging themes, a rhizomatic approach", Women's History Review (2013)
  • "'WE WILL HAVE IT': Children and Protest in the Ten Hours Movement" in Goose, N., Honeyman, K. (eds.), Childhood and Child Labour (Ashgate, 2012)
  • Borderline Citizens: Women, Gender and Political Culture, 1780–1860 (Oxford University Press USA, 2009)
  • British Women in the 19th Century (Palgrave Macillan, 2001)

References

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  1. ^ Gleadle, Kathryn Jane (September 1993). The early feminists: radical Unitarians and the emergence of the women's rights movement, c.1831-1851. University of Warwick (Thesis). Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  2. ^ "Kathryn Gleadle". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  3. ^ "Examination and boards", Oxford University Gazette, 28 October 2004. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  4. ^ Oxford University Gazette, 7 May 2009. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  5. ^ Robin Darwall-Smith, A History of University College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 537
  6. ^ "Recognition of Distinction: Successful Applicants 2015" Archived 2018-02-27 at the Wayback Machine, The University of Oxford Gazette, no. 510915, October 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  7. ^ "Mansfield College: Annual Report and Financial Statements". Charity Commission. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  8. ^ "Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2004" (PDF). Leverhulme Trust. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  9. ^ "Professor Kathryn Gleadle", University of Oxford History Faculty. Retrieved 22 November 2016.