The Illustrated Woman

Symposium on Illustration Research and Practise in Relation to Notions of Womanhood

School of Design, University of Leeds, UK
Monday, 19th May 2025

This symposium aims to bring together academics and practitioners to discuss the phenomenon of the illustrated woman – a constructed or drawn image of a woman with a defined purpose to promote, illuminate, educate or entertain. Though  designed for dissemination to large audiences, illustration remains an often academically overlooked site of potential power, particularly in the ways in which it covertly or explicitly reflects or challenges ideological positions of womanhood.