Past events

Here are details of previous reading group sessions.

Spring semester 2007-08 seminar/reading group series: 'Gender identity and representations of the body'

• 25th January - Research presentations: Gender identity and Representations of the Body
• 15th February - Reading group: The Body Politic
• 14th March - Reading group: Masculinities
• 11th April - Reading group: Race and the Gendered Body
• 9th May - Reading group: The Adolescent Sexual Body
• 6th June - End of year review

Autumn semester 2008-09 reading group series: '(Re)visiting feminisms'

• 22nd October - Introductory session and Janet Halley - 'Split decisions'
• 5th November - Mary Wollstonecraft - 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'
• 19th November - Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and 'Women and economics'
• 3rd December - Simone de Beauvoir - 'The Second Sex'

Spring semester 2008-09 reading group series: 'Feminist locations'

• 30th January - 'Feminism and transgender identities': Judith Butler's 'Gender Trouble' and the case of Thomas Beatie
• 13th February - 'Pornography': Readings from Catherine MacKinnon, Angela Carter and Alice Walker.
• 27th February - 'Feminism and Spirituality': Readings from Mary Astell's 'A Serious Proposal to the Ladies' (1694), and Leela Fernandes' 'Transforming Feminist Practice: Non-Violence, Social Justice and the Possibilities of a Spiritualized Feminism' (2003).
  
• 27th March - 'Feminist activism in a global context': Readings from Myra Marx Ferree on Globalization and Feminism and from Sara Helman and Tamar Rapoport on the Israeli protest movement 'Women in Black'.
• 26th June - 'Transnational feminism': Readings from Jill Steans on 'Global Governance: a Feminist Perspective' and Chandra Talpade Mohanty on 'Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests, and the Politics of Solidarity'.

Autumn semester 2009-10

• 4th November - 'Performativity and the material body': reading from Judith Butler's (1993) 'Bodies That Matter'.
• 25th November - 'Masculinities': reading R.W. Connell's 'The Social Organisation of Masculinity' from 'Masculinities' (1995/2005).

Spring semester 2009-10

• 17 Feb - Judith Butler (1990) Gender Trouble. Routledge, pp. 3-18.
• 3 March - Judith Halberstam (1998) Female Masculinity. Duke University Press.
• 17 March - Deborah Cameron (2007) The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages? Cambridge University Press.
• 21 April - (1) Joanne Entwistle (2004) From catwalk to catalogue: male models, masculinity and identity. In: H. Thomas and J. Ahmed (eds) Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory, pp. 55-75. (2) Ashley Mears (2008) Discipline of the catwalk: gender, power and uncertainty in fashion modeling. Ethnography 9(4): 429-456.
• 5 May - Mary Bucholtz (2002) Geek feminism. In: Sarah Benor et al. (eds) Gendered Practices in Language. Stanford: CSLI, pp. 277-307.