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From: Stacy Gillis <[log in to unmask]>
Third Wave Feminism International Conference
~~ An Institute for Feminist Theory and Research Conference ~
http://www.iftr.org.uk
July 23-25, 2002
Crossmead Conference Centre
University of Exeter, UK
Keynote Addresses:
Germaine Greer, Elaine Showalter, Susan Stryker and E. Ann Kaplan
Confirmed speakers:
Jacqueline Labbe, Kate Fullbrook, Mary Orr, Sara Mills, Jacqueline Rose,
John Dupre, Colin MacCabe, Susan Hayward, Clare Hanson and Pamela
Church-Gibson.
The conference will address the parameters of second wave feminism, posing
the question of a third wave in feminist theory and history in order to
redirect feminist enquiry without acceding to the defeatism implicit in
postfeminism.
Possible Topics:
What is Feminism?
Feminist Politics in the Academy
Third Wave Femininity
Whos Afraid of Essentialiam?
Sexualities
Historicising the Third Wave
Cyberfeminism
(un)Popular Feminisms
Racial and Gendered Bodies
What Happened to the Sisterhood?
Visual Culture
The Maternal
Consciousness-Raising
Reproductive Technologies
Transgender/Genderfucking
Literary Feminisms
Interrogating the Waves
Class and Gender
Reconstructing the Second Wave
Between Materialism and Psychoanalysis
The Feminist Critic
Please note - this list is not comprehensive and is intended to suggest
rather than prescribe.
Abstracts/ Panel proposals for academic papers, installations, readings,
short films or performances by FEBRUARY 14, 2002 to:
Dr. Stacy Gillis
School of English
University of Exeter
Exeter, Devon
EX4 4QH
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0)1392 264343 or 263712/ Fax: +44 (0)1392 264361
Email: [log in to unmask]
Conference Organisers:
Stacy Gillis and Rebecca Munford, University of Exeter
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Dr. Stacy Gillis
Research Fellow
School of English
University of Exeter
Exeter, EX4 4QH
England
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Dr. Stacy Gillis
Research Fellow
School of English
University of Exeter
Exeter, EX4 4QH
England
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