CALL FOR PAPERS
RGS-IBG Annual conference - Plymouth UK, 2-5 January 2001
Half day session, organised by the Women and Geography Study Group and
Post-Socialist Geographers Research Group of the RGS-IBG
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GENDER INTO THE FUTURE
This session seeks to explore the consequences of
recent theoretical, political and socio-economic developments for the
concept of gender. The need for a thorough re-conceptualisation of
"gender" in feminist thought and practice has arisen due to a number
of challenges: the problematisation of binary sex/gender divides, the
unsettling of feminist assumptions about the 'nature' of gender
through the emergence of a politics of difference, changing gender
roles in (allegedly) post-industrial, post-colonial and post-socialist
societies, as well as the increasing significance of electronic
communication for the (re)negotiation of personal and group
identities, to name a few.
The session will respond to current debates about the adequacy of
"gender", "gender roles" and "gender relations" as explicatory
concepts and as targets for political change. It will ask whether,
and if so how, "gender" can be (re)defined for future feminist
politics and research from a wide range of perspectives and in a
variety of contexts.
Possible themes include:
* Performance, sexuality and gender
* Theories of embodiment and gender
* Gender identities in cyberspace
* Societies of transformation and the (re)negotiation of gender
relations: the post-socialist context
the post-colonial context
the post-industrial context
* De/gendering the future?
Other related topics will also be considered.
Please send an abstract (200 words) via post or email to
Kathrin Hoerschelmann by 30 June.
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Dr Kathrin Hoerschelmann
Department of Geographical Sciences
University of Plymouth
Drake Circus
Plymouth PL4 8AA
Tel: 01752-233068
fax: 01752-233054
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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