Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women

Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women

24 September 2015 through 26 February 2016 
Characterized by comically grotesque figures

performing lewd and vulgar actions, bawdy humor

provided a poignant vehicle to target a variety of

political and social issues in eighteenth-century

Britain. Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women

explores the deployment of this humorous but

derisive strategy toward the regulation of female

behavior. The exhibition presents satirical images

of women from a range of subject categories

including the royal family, aging members of

fashionable society, disparaged mothers, political

activists, gamblers, medical wonders, artists,

performers, and intellectuals.

The Lewis Walpole Library

154 Main Street, Farmington, Connecticut

Exhibition open Wednesdays, 2–4:30 pm,

and by appointment

 

Limited enrollment by application

“We are an injured body”: Collectivity and the Female Body

Jill Campbell (Yale University)

2 October 2015

Expressive Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Satirical Prints

Amelia Rauser (Franklin & Marshall College)

 

30 October 2015

Public Lecture

Rock, Paper, Scissors: Dimensionality and Neoclassical

Aesthetics in the Art and Fashion of the 1790s

Amelia Rauser (Franklin & Marshall College)

 

28 October 2015, 5:30 pm

Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall

Details and application information:

Bawdy Bodies

Satires of Unruly Women

Image: Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827). The Poll, ca. 1784

The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 784.04.27.01.2+ Impression 1