Women’s Studies

Christina (Cookie) Woolner

Joint PhD Program in Women’s Studies and History Student

Contact Information:
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Email: cwoolner@umich.edu

Scholarly Interests: 19th & early 20th c. U.S. cultural history; history of gender and sexuality; popular performance and popular culture.

Presentations and Publications:

Papers Presented:

“In Beef We Trust: The Spectacle of Fat Women in Turn-of-the-Century Burlesque,” at the Midwest Popular Culture Association conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2006. 

“The Cultural Significance of the Women at the Bella Union Theater, 1849-1906,” at the San Francisco State University Humanities Symposium, 2005. 

Forthcoming Publications:
 
"American Excess: Lillian Russell on the Turn-of-the-Century Stage," in Historicizing Fat. Elena Levy-Navarro, editor. 

"A Torrid Affair," in It's So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style. Michelle Tea, editor. Seal Press, 2007.

 




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