Graduate Seminar Series - Past Sessions (2004-Present)
2024-25
Seminar 1: Spaces of Agency: Alliances, Subversions, and Choices - 30th October
- Akansha Rai (University of Hydebarad) - Mapping Trajectories Among Women Workers from Marginalised Artisan Communities in Northern India.
- Eli S. (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) - The Lesbian Sublime in 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' (2019) and 'Ammonite' (2020)
- Emma Thiebaut (Universit茅 Paris Cit茅) - Nineteenth-Century Zoopoetics: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and the Sapphic Eroticism of Pussies
Seminar 2: Reflections on Gender Equality in the UK: Conservative Narratives and Alternative Stories - 27th November
- Chloe Sanyu (University of Cambridge) -Tales of Empowerment or Echoes of Inequality? A Feminist Exploration of the UK Conservative Government's Narratives Concerning Gender Equality in International Development (2018-2024).
- Ellen Davenport-Pleasance (University College London) - How Do Bi+ Mothers Make Meaning of Their Experiences of Motherhood? : A Narrative Analysis of Timeline Interviews with Bisexual+ Mothers.
Seminar 3: Feminist Politics and Activism: Exploring Autofiction, Affective Expressions, and Digital Landscapes - 22nd January
- Smriti Verma (University of Oxford) - Form as Strategic Necessity in Contemporary Women's Autofiction.
- Catherine Evans (Carnegie Mellon University) - Threadbare Politics: The Affective Lives of Feminist T-Shirts.
- Frederic Mirindi(University of Manitoba) - Digital Feminism: Intersectionality and Activism in the Age of Social Media.
Seminar 4: Challenging Constructions of Gender and Sexualities: Representation Across Contexts - 12th March
- Lisa Bognenko (CNRS / Universit茅 Paris Cit茅) -"Housekeeper and houseworker of the world": domesticity, domestic economy, and public health in the writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pauline Hopkins, and Edith Wharton, 1890-1920.
- Ren Qinglan(Universiti Malaya) - Invisible women in the Chinese gap year: Challenges and strategies.
- Xiaoyu Zhang(University of York) - The Transformation of Feminist Ideologies in China: Representation of Women in Realistic TV Shows.
Seminar 5: Institutional Constructions of Gender: Addressing Violence, Identity, and Mental Health - 11th June
- Diana Malaj (University of Graz) - Beyond carceral feminism? Contextualising feminist discourses in domestic and sexualised violence in Kosovo and Albania.
- Chanapang Pongpiboonkiat (University of Leeds) - Uncomfortable, But Do It Anyway: A Reflexive Journey on Researching the Mediated Construction of Gendered Military Identities as a Former Military Woman.
- Lorna Pepperill (University of Cambridge) - Gendered Symptoms: Femininity, Experience and NHS 鈥楾alking Therapies鈥�.
- Daljit Singh (University of Delhi) - Wedding Across Borders: Narratives of Marriage, Migration and Desertion.
2023-24
2022-23
- Eva Liu (Ohio University) - MeToo activism without the #MeToo hashtag: online debates over entertainment celebrities鈥� sex scandals in China
Seminar 3: Nationalism and State's Policies - 8th March
2021-22
- Athina Mara - Regulating same-sex parenting in Greece: institutional changes, social acceptance, claims
- Marietta Kosma - Decoloniality, Borderlands, and Transformative Visions
Seminar 3: History and Culture - 8th December
- Siti Shari - The Status of the Victorian Women and Infanticide: History Behind Infanticide Act 1938
- Arna Dirghangi - The nouvelle femme of Calcutta: How the 1947 Bengal Partition set forth a newly-acquired agency in the refugee woman during post-partition resettlement
- Aleksandr Lepin - Social work with single-fathers raising children following divorce in Russia
- Amy Andrada - The Construction of Motherhood: Re-conceptualizing Single Mothers
Seminar 4: Patriarchal Institutions - 9th January
- Taoyuan Luo - 'Feminist鈥� as a problematic tag: young Chinese women distancing themselves from a feminist identity and the rising feminist zeal
- Islam Al Khatib - Re-purposing Solidarity: Grief as a Feminist Tool in the MENA
- Abena Nyarkoa - What factors help us understand the academic achievement of a small group of Ghanaian girls from disadvantaged backgrounds? Participants lived experiences
- Sritama Manda - Gender and Health in India
Seminar 5: Women on the Move - 2nd February
- Caoimhe Kiernan - How can the affects inspired by the global feminist judgment projects influence the gender composition of judiciaries in common law jurisdictions?
- Lucy Crompton - "Gender bias in financial remedies on divorce"
- Erin Geraghty - "Why enquire into something the world already knows about?鈥� Comparing imperial feminist motivations for Millicent Fawcett鈥檚 鈥楥ommittee of Ladies鈥� to South Africa 1901 and the Women鈥檚 International League delegation to Ireland 1920
- Kathrina Perry - Ladies of the Shoe Trade: Philanthropy, politics and the social significance of the wives of prominent shoe manufacturers in Northampton, 1870 – 1950
Seminar 6: Media and Literature - 2nd March
- Hannah Sherwood - 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun': Development of the Music Video and the Female Body
- Irene Rodriguez Pintado - Female creation as female self-assertion: The Diary of Ana茂s Nin and Sylvia Plath鈥檚 The Bell Jar on female creativity and authorship
- Nelly Fais-sad - Lolita – The Myth of the Child-Woman in Visual Media Concepts
- Melissa Arkley-Simpson - Let Us Be Angry! An Intersectional Analysis of Feminist Anger Expressed Through the Affective Labour of Female Extreme Metal Vocalists
2020-21
Seminar 2: Intersectionality in Social Movements - 2nd December
Seminar 3: Negotiating Medical Body Presentations - 9th December
Seminar 4: Negotiating Aesthetic Presentations of The Body - 20th January
Seminar 5: Criminalising Gender - 3rd March
2019-20
Seminar 5: Queer Relationships - 29th January
2018-19
Seminar 2: State and Gender: Reproductive Rights and Discursive Formations around Gender - 21st November
Seminar 3: Narratives of Embodiment: Empowering Bodies and Practices - 28th November
Seminar 4: Queerness and Faith - 16th January
Seminar 5: Sexual Consent - 30th January
Seminar 6: Contested Masculinities - 6th March
2017-18
Seminar 2: Violence, Sexualities and (Dis)empowerment - 8th November
Seminar 3: Re-negotiating Femininities - 22th November
Seminar 4: Women in Politicised Spaces: Negotiations, Achievements and Difficulties - 24th January
Seminar 5: 'Invisible' Working Spaces - 7th February
Seminar 6: Agency, Resistance and Social Transformations - 12th March
2016-17
- Eunju Bahrisch, University of 糖心TV - Typewriters and Coffee: How did Korean Women take over the job of secretaries?
Seminar 2: Narratives of Gender from the Personal to the Professional - 2nd November
- Faye McCarthy, Loughborough University - 'If you think of a pilot, you wouldn't think of a woman, would you?' Challenging the 'Male Norm' of the Pilot Profession
Seminar 3: Incorporating the Televisual and the Theoretical: Gender Identities in Flux - 16th November
- Greg Wolfman, University of Huddersfield - 'Warrior-Poet': Feminine Neoliberal Men in US Sitcoms
Seminar 4: Alternative Cultures: Developing Global Perspectives Through Resistance and Reflexivity - 30th November
- Roxanne Douglas, University of 糖心TV - Orientating: How can Western Feminists Analyse the Middle East?
Seminar 5: Women In and Beyond War: Justice, Conflict and Peacekeeping - 11th January
- Jennifer Eggert, University of 糖心TV - A woman with a gun: Individual Motivations for Women's Involvement during the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War
Seminar 6: Gender and the Media: Articulating Experiences and Facilitating Change - 25th January
Seminar 7: Narrating the Stages of Life from a Gendered Perspective: Birth, Marriage and Middle Age - 8th March
- Clare Anderson, University of Birmingham - 'There's more that can go wrong on a woman...' a Linguistic Analysis of Personal Discourses on Ageing
2015-16
- Emily Setty, University of Surrey - Exploring the Gendered Nature of the Construction of, Response to and Experience of 'Youth Sexting'
Seminar 2: Feminist Participations and Contemporary Narratives in a Global Context - 4th November
Seminar 3: Gendered Power and Political Discourses: Challenges in Society - 2nd December
- Jennifer McConnel, University of Manchester - Liberal Agents or Victims of Abuse? a Critical Discourse Analysis of Prostitution in the European Parliament
Seminar 4: Cultural Representations with a Gender Perspective: Narratives, Emotions and Experience - 27th January
- Sara Whiteway, University College London - Masculinity, Fatherhood and Education: an Exploration of the Educational Experiences and Aspirations of Teenage Fathers
Seminar 5: Constructing the Contemporary Family: Performing Parenthood and Impacts of Employment - 10th February
- Jai MacKenzie, Aston University - 'Can we have a child exchange?' Performing, mocking and subverting the 'good mother' in Mumsnet 'talk'
Seminar 6: A Gender Agenda: Visual Methods, Masculinities and the Environmental - 24th February
- Isaac Newton, University of Cape Town - Negotiation of Masculinities and Gender-Based Violence: Perspectives of men in contemporary Ghana
Seminar 7: Gender, Representation and Control: International Contexts - 9th March
- Charlotte Rachael Proudman, University of Cambridge - A legal double standard: Prohibiting female genital mutilation while tolerating female genital cosmetic surgery
2014-15
(incomplete)- Fiona McKay, University of Strathclyde – Media(ted) representations of female politicians during the Scottish independence referendum.
- Isabell Loeschner, London School of Economics – Connectivity: Is it simplifying the burden of work-family integration?
- Samantha Ayala, University of York – Solidarity despite difference: Race, identity, and the possibilities of postpositivist realism.
- Tamara Al-Om, University of St Andrews – Syrian women and the struggle to live in truth.
- Alexandra Athelsan-Price, University of Leeds – Queer feminine affect aliens: Disabled femmes rearticulating queer femininities through justified anger at ableism.
- Emma Deeks, Edge Hill – The Agency of Anonymity: Reading Women's Autobiographical Blogs.
2013-14
Session 1: Constructing Sexual Subjects - 22nd January
- Julieta Vartabedian, University of Newcastle - Do they transgress? On Brazilian travesti sex workers and their perceptions of themselves
- Stephen Symons, University of Northampton - Any swing goes? Discursive constructions of swinger- identities in a mononormative and gendered culture
- Jacob Breslow, London School of Economics - "Too bad you had to grow up": Refusing to be a (queer) child in "Palindromes"
Session 2: Women in Literature - 5th February
- Jessica Hindes, Royal Holloway, University of London - Censorship, Pornography and the Objectified Woman in G.W.M. Reynold's "Mysteries of London"
- Susan Garrard, University of St Andrews - Strange Places, Strange Self: The Autobiography of Mary Smith as Reconfiguration of Victorian Women鈥檚 Travelogue
- Ellie Dobson, University of Birmingham - Magical Bodies: The Supernatural Appeal of the Ancient Egyptian Female Body at the Fin-de-Si猫cle
Session 3: Childhood and Motherhood - 12th Feburary
- Aleksandra Mecinska, University of Lancaster - Breastfeeding as technology: the stakes of a reconfiguration
- Jessica Gagnon, University of Sussex - Mother as 'monster': the social vilification of single mothers as told by their daughters
- Giulia Zanfabro, University of 糖心TV - Feminine Normativity in Contemporary Italian Children and Young Adults' Literature: Norms, Identities, Disidentifications?
Session 4: Gender, Policy and Methodology - March 5th
- Mary-Ann Stephenson, University of 糖心TV - Transformation or ticking boxes? The Impact of the Public Sector Equality Duty on the Work of Local Government Equalities Teams
- Emily Henderson, Institute of Education, University of London - Moving Feminist-ly from theory to data:' Plugging, squelching, reflecting, abjecting'
- David Davis, University of Sussex - A Comparative Analysis of Combating Gender Stereotypes in Advertising and the Media in the EU
Session 5: Masculinities and gender in organisations - 30th April
- Helen Longlands, Institute of Education, University of London - Men, Masculinities and Fatherhood in Global Finance
- Lauren Ward, University of Northampton - 'Just Play the Game':Exploring how Masculinities shape Emotionality in male dominated organisations
- Lara Pecis, University of 糖心TV - Excluding the Other: Reproducing gender dynamics throughout innovation process
Session 6: History / the research subject - 14th May
- Beatrice Balfour, University of Cambridge - Feminist Tales of the Italian Resistance
- Emma Jones, Institute of Education, University of London - (Dis) Orienting Subjects
2012-13
Session 1: Queer Time, Queer Representations - 14th November
- Sam Mcbean, Birkbeck, University of London - Feminism鈥檚 Queer Timing: Unburying Valerie Solanas and SCUM Manifesto
- H. L. Gurney, University of Sussex - Menarche Now! Menstruation, Shame, and Queer Interventions
Session 2: Gendered Violence and Resistance - 28th November
- Roxanne Ellen Bibizadeh, University of 糖心TV - Women in Exile: Islam and disempowerment in Fadia Faqir's My Name is Salma
- Mirna Guha, University of 糖心TV - Kaarya (鈥淲ork that Heals鈥�): Rehabilitating survivors of trafficking through an innovative livelihood generation programme
Session 3: Women, Work, and Family - 23rd January
- Natalie Wreyford, Kings College London - Gender and Networking for Work Inside and Outside the UK Film Industry
- Lenka Pelechova, University of Nottingham - Negotiating the 鈥榓ppropriate closeness and distance鈥� – host parents鈥� and au pairs relationships
Session 4: Constructing Gendered Identities - 13th February
- Anne Burns, Loughborough University - What Do I Look Like Online? - Women, photography and social media
- Kirsty Lohman and Ruth Pearce, University of 糖心TV - Trans Music Isn't
- Andolie Marguerite, Goldsmith鈥檚 College - Trans/gender/queer: identities and discourses
Session 5: Women in Political Activism - 13th March
- Lipika Kamara, University of Oxford - The Woman Question in the Indian Maoist Movement
- Katharina Karcher, University of 糖心TV - Guns n鈥� Roses: Female participation in leftist political violence in Germany since 1970
- Rose Erin Holyoak, University of Leicester - Eco-Warriors and Earth-Mothers: Young Women Negotiating Femininity in Social Movement Activism in the UK
- Louise Woollett, University of 糖心TV - The Role of Resistance in Conflict Resolution: A Study of Present-Day Palestinian Young Women's Nonviolent Resistance
Session 6: Health and the Female Body - 1st May
- Umme Busra Fateha Sultana, University of Sussex - Exploring the Construction of Gender & Sexualities in Contraceptive Advertisements in Bangladesh
- Diane Trusson, University of Nottingham - Exploring Gendered Aspects of Biographical Disruption through the Narratives of Women treated for Early-Stage Breast Cancer (ESBC) or DCIS
- Kylie Baldwin, De Montfort University - Social Egg Freezing: Negotiating Choice, Responsibility and the Right Time to Be a Mother
Session 7: Images of Women and Sexism in the Media - 22nd May
- Nazia Hussein, University of 糖心TV - Complexities of the Representation of Urban Women in Bangladeshi Media
- Izzy Gutteridge, University of 糖心TV - The Ugly Side of Stardoll
- Joelin Quigley-Berg, University of 糖心TV - What Counts as Sexism? Regulating Sexist Offence in UK Television Advertising
Session 8: Negotiating Modern Masculinities - 5th June
- Joseph Oldham, University of 糖心TV - The 鈥楤lair Masculinity鈥� in British Spy Fiction
- Emma Hutchinson, University of 糖心TV - Heteronormativity 2.0: Gender and Identity Performance in an Online Game
2011-12
Session 1: Processes of interpretation: gender and sexuality in celebrity culture – 2nd of November 2011
- Melanie Kennedy, University of East Anglia: The Jonas Brothers as Tween Pin-ups: The Negotiation of Desire in Young Feminine 鈥楤ecoming鈥�
- Izzy Gutteridge, University of 糖心TV: Picturing Fame
Session 2: Gender, migration and citizenship – 23rd of November 2011
- Bimbika Sijapati Basnett, London School of Economics and Political Science: Nexus between Gender, Migration and Forest Governance: Re-thinking Community Forestry Policies in Nepal
- Evelyn Sulem, University of 糖心TV: Transnational Migration in Mexican Indigenous Communities: The Reconstruction of Gender and the Empowerment of Indigenous Women
- Menah Raven-Ellison, Queen Mary, University of London: Unlocking the Gates to Detention: Reflections on Gatekeeper-Researcher Relationships
Session 3: media, representations and sexualities - 18th of January 2012
- Mark Carrigan, University of 糖心TV: There's More to Life Than Sex?: Rethinking the Sexual Revolution from an Asexual Perspective
- Ruth Pearce, University of 糖心TV: Genderforking: Deconstructing Gender Norms in a Community Blog
Session 4: Gender issues in the global context: challenging feminist politics - 8th of February 2012
- Angie Pepper, University of Sheffield: Cosmopolitanism, Feminism and the Problem of Cultural Imperialism
- Somayyeh Mottaghi, York University: Doing Feminist Research In Iran
- Amanda Conroy, London School of Economics and Political Science: Masculinity, Citizenship and Sovereignty in the Minuteman Movement
Session 5: Researching Gender: Different Perspectives - 2nd of May 2012
- Annelies Kleinherenbrink, Universiteit Utrecht: Revolutionizing Evolution: Evolutionary Psychology, Feminist Epistemologies, and Bergson鈥檚 Reality of Time
- 鈥ㄢ��Sam Lyle, University of 糖心TV: What (not) to Wear When You鈥檙e a Trainee Accountant鈥ㄢ��
- Danielle Hanisch, University of South Australia: 鈥淕irls are just like that鈥�: The feminization of effects of child sexual abuse (CSA) and borderline personality disorder (BPD)
Session 6: Representations of Women in Media - 23rd of May 2012
- Joelin Quigley-Berg, University of 糖心TV: Comedy and the Fat Female Body鈥ㄢ��
- Nancy Bruseker, University of Liverpool: 'I am in Love (With You)': Vesta Tilley鈥檚 Fan Mail and Popular Music Audiences
Session 7: Gender, Class and Bodies at Work - 13th of June 2012
- Natasha McKeever, University of Sheffield: Why Might It Be Wrong to Buy Sex?鈥ㄢ��
- Sini Timonen, City University London: Narratives Of Segregation And Independence: Female Singers And Regional Beat Group Scenes In England In The 1960s
- 鈥ㄢ��Mona Shrestha Adhikari, University of 糖心TV: Resistance to Sexualisation of Women鈥檚 Work in Kathma ndu Casinos
2010-11
Session 1: Open Stream – 20th October 2010
- Nazia Hussein, Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of 糖心TV: Colour of Life Achievements: Historical and Media Influence of Identity Formation Based on Skin Colour in South Asia
- Sariya Contractor, University of Gloucester: De-mystifying the Muslimah: Using Muslim women鈥檚 digital stories to develop notions of women鈥檚 solidarity and shared femininity
- Tom Horn, Goldsmiths College: Who's taking the biscuit? The influence of online discussion forum use and media framing on experiences of efficacy in the 2010 'Mumsnet election'
Session 2: Sport, Leisure and Gender – 10th November 2010
- Jonah Bury, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol: Homosexuality, homophobia and masculinities in professional and grassroots football
- Georgina Roy, Chelsea School, University of Brighton: Feminism and the Female Surfer: Theorising Surfing Spaces
- Deb Butler, Department of Sociology, University of 糖心TV: Becoming a stranger to the data – the trials and tribulations of trying to leave the field – N.B. Horseracing study
Session 3: Women and Work – 26th January 2011
- Rosario Undurraga, Department of Sociology, University of 糖心TV: How would you define work? Recognition and identity in relation to the conceptualisation of work
- Jenny Nex, Sociology department, Goldsmiths College: Women in the musical instrument trade in London, 1760–1820.
Session 4: Women Writers – 16th February 2011
- Leanne Bibby, School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University: Complicitous Critiques: A. S. Byatt, the Woman Writer-Intellectual and Feminist Classics Revisited
- Sally Waterman, University of Plymouth: Literary Transformations: A Self-Representational Arts Practice
Session 5: Erotic Dance – 9th March 2011
- Joanne Mitchinson, Loughborough University: Community-based perceptions of lap dance clubs and licensing laws
- Katy Pilcher, Department of Sociology, University of 糖心TV: Women Customers鈥� Experiences in Erotic Dance Venues
Session 6: Invisible Bodies/Sexualities – 11th May 2011
- Kirsty Liddiard, Department of Sociology, University of 糖心TV: Disabled men and women's experiences of intimate relationships: The relationship as a site of emotional work
- Mark Carrigan, Department of Sociology, University of 糖心TV: 鈥淢aybe you鈥檙e just a late bloomer?鈥� Understanding the marginalization of asexuals through the investigation of sexual culture
- Jane Traies, University of Sussex: The Lives of British Lesbians Over Sixty: An Empirical Investigation
Session 7: Gender, sexuality, and the criminal justice system – 1st June 2011
- Anastasia Chamberlen, School of Law, King鈥檚 College London: 鈥淢y Body is a Cage鈥�: An Investigation into the Bodily Identities of Incarcerated Women
- Matthew Jones, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University: Sexuality and Policing: Exploring the occupational experiences of LGB police officers throughout England and Wales
Session 8: Embodying Gender – 15th June 2011
- Dara Blumenthal, University of Kent: 鈥淵ou Lookin' At Me?鈥� Investigating Masculine Embodiment and the Interaction Order of Public Toilet Spaces
- Michael Ward, Cardiff University: Young Masculinities and the 鈥榓lternative scene鈥�: negotiating de-industrialization among white, working class young men in the South Wales valleys.
- Ana Porroche Escudero, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Sussex: Breast Cancer Quiz: How Much Do You Know about Breast Cancer? Implications for methodology
2009-10
Session 1: Women and Workplace Negotiations – Wed. 21st October 2009, 5pm
- Maria Karepova, Centre for Women's Studies, University of York. 'A mental start: the "alternative" ways of entering the labour market of psychological counselling in Russia'.
- Sophia Michael, LSE. 'Male or Female? Neither. Personality Dictates: A study investigating the way in which gender affects the negotiation process'.
- Juliet Rayment, Department of Sociology, University of 糖心TV. 'The midwife-mother relationship: Intimacy within an institution'.
Session 2: Women and Public Space in India and Taiwan - Wednesday 11th November 2009, 5pm
- Hiranmayee Mishra, Centre for Women's Studies, University of York. 'Negotiating privately for a public space: Indian women in Panchayats'.
- Kai-Jung Yuan, Department of Politics, University of York. 'The Negotiation of Feminine Spaces in Electoral Campaigns: Competition and Cooperation'.
Session 3: Domestic and Sexual Violence – Wed. 2nd December 2009, 5pm
- Abigail Hunt, Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of 糖心TV. 'Gender, framing and political opportunities: Exploring the strategies used by the English sexual violence and abuse movement'.
- David Beecham, Department of Sociology, University of 糖心TV. 'Being the Breadwinner: Economic Independence or Economic Entrapment? Women's Experiences of Intimate Partner Abuse'.
Session 4: Women and Sport – Wed. 27th January 2010, 5pm
- Sam Farooq, Department of Sociology, University of 糖心TV. 'Shooting Hoops for Britain: The British Muslim Women's Basketball Team and the Women's Islamic Games'.
- Deborah Butler, Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of 糖心TV. 'Work identities, horseracing and gender'.
Session 5: Women's Sociability: Past and Present – Wed. 10th February 2010, 5pm
- Mark Hailwood, Department of History, University of 糖心TV. 'Women and the Alehouse in Seventeenth-Century England'.
- Emily Falconer, Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University. 'Politicising female backpacking: A new "women's movement" or simply women on the move?'.
Session 6: Disability and Sexuality – Wed. 3rd March 2010, 5pm
- Kirsty Liddiard, Department of Sociology, University of 糖心TV. "I feell bottom of the heap": Disabled Sexual Stories and Gendered Telling.
- Sue Smith, School of English, University of Leicester. "Neither Normal nor Human": The Cyborg in C.L. Moore's "No Woman Born"' (1944).
Session 7: New men? – Wed. 12th May 2010, 5pm
- Jessica Baily, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield. 'Exploring the social construction of gender in a feminist context'.
- James Milton, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool. Don't Men Care? 'Hegemonic Masculinity', Care-giving Practices, and the Emotional (Psycho-social) Subject.
- Mark McCormack, Department of Education, University of Bath. 'The Declining Significance of Homohysteria for Male Sixth Form Students in the South of England'.
Session 8: Expressing sexuality - Wed. 2nd June 2010, 5pm
- Adrienne Evans, Department of Psychology, University of Bath. 'Sexualized Clothing and the Porn Star T-shirt: Risk, "Choice" and Parodic Intent'.
- Rebecca Pohl, English & American Studies; School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester. 'Space and Sexuality in Recent British Fiction: Sexing the Labyrinth'.
- Mary Ryan, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland. 'Tackling Taboos: Irish Chick Lit Voicing the Silenced'.
2008-09
2007-08
2006-07
2005-06
Wednesday 1 March 2006, 5-6pm
- Annie Bramley (University of Bristol), Ordered and disordered colonial history: Using the oral histories of white British women of colonial east Africa (WRITTEN PAPER AVAILABLE)
Wednesday 30 November 2005, 1pm
- Nicola Morrell (London University), Mature females in Information and Communication Technology: Are they conscientious or conscious objectors? Analysing the rationale and motivation of mature females to train for and enter ICT teaching
Wednesday 16 November 2005, 1pm
- Georgina Holmes (School of African and Oriental Studies), Gendering War: Media representations of war in Rwanda and Sudan (WRITTEN PAPER AVAILABLE)
Wednesday 9 November 2005, 1pm
- Liz Mitchell (Canterbury Christ Church), Different Ways of Seeing: The Language Games of Mothering (WRITTEN PAPER AVAILABLE)
2004-05
Wednesday 8 June 2005, 1pm
- Mallarika Sinha Roy (University of Oxford), Unsung Heroines: Making and Unmaking of Women's History in the Naxalbari Movement
Wednesday 1 June 2005, 1pm
- Thea Cacchioni (University of 糖心TV): Successful Heterosexuality: A Labour of Love
Wednesday 25 May 2005, 1pm
- Patreeya Kitcharoen (University of 糖心TV): Journeys through Ethnography: Women in Thai Restaurants in England
Wednesday 11 May 2005, 1pm
- Frahm-Arp (University of 糖心TV), Bourdieu and Professional Pentecostal Women in South Africa
Wednesday 4 May 2005, 1pm
- Michelle Obeid (LSE): 'Soft hands' and unblemished faces: 'Women's modernities' in a Lebanese village
Wednesday 2 March 2005
- Shailaja Paik (University of 糖心TV): Voices of Dalit Women from Pune
Friday 12th Nov, 5pm
- Beckie Coleman (Goldsmith College, University of London): Mobile Heterosexuality? Girls' Experiences of Their Bodies Through Boys and Friends
Wednesday 17th Nov, 1pm
- Giulia Garofalo (University of East London): Prostitution as an sexuo-economic transaction
Wednesday 1st Dec, 1pm
- Barbra Wallace (University of East London): Gender Revisited: meanings of sustainability from the perspective of community-based social entrepreneurs
Wednesday 15th Dec, 1pm
- Nibedita Shankar (University of 糖心TV): Women headed-households and their vulnerabilities to multiple natural hazards in Orissa: a missing element in disaster response