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At 03:48 PM 4/1/01 +0000, you wrote:
>Conference Announcement:
>
>Women’s Studies Network (UK) Association 14th Annual Conference
>
>Gender and Culture: leisure, consumption and women’s everyday lives
>
>12th ­ 14th July 2001, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education,
>UK
>
>
>The Leisure and Sport Research Unit at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of
>Higher Education is pleased to announce the 2001 Women’s Studies Network
>(UK) Association conference (www.chelt.ac.uk/lsru). The conference will
>provide a major inter-disciplinary event exploring the intersections of
>gender with contemporary culture and consumption.
>
>The conference will draw together participants from across the social
>sciences and humanities to engage with new developments in feminist and
>gender theory, policy, practice and activism. Art, fashion, film, leisure,
>literature, media, shopping, sport, television, and tourism will all be
>explored as cultural sites and sights that play significant roles in
>forming, performing and reforming contemporary gender relations,
>identities, and spaces. Major national and international researchers in
>cultural studies, gender studies, geography, leisure studies, literary
>studies, media studies, social policy, sociology, sports studies, tourism
>studies, visual arts, and women’s studies will lead discussions examining
>gender and culture in relation to three major themes:
>
>· leisure space, violence and the city
>· consumption, fashion and (life)style
>· language, media and visual culture
>
>
>Submission of abstracts
>
>Researchers, lecturers, policy makers, practitioners, activists and
>postgraduate students are invited to submit abstracts of papers. Abstracts
>of 300-400 words, together with brief biographical details of the researcher
>(s)/presenter(s) (maximum of 200 words), should be submitted to the
>Conference Administrator by May 4th 2001. Abstracts should contain:
>· name of researcher/presenter, title and organisational affiliation
>where appropriate
>· title of paper and conference theme to which the paper is submitted
>· 300-400 word summary of the context, theoretical and/or subject
>underpinning and findings
>
>Dr Cara Aitchison, Conference Chair
>Reader in Leisure Policy and Cultural Theory
>Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
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>
>Please submit abstracts to:
>Heather Sheridan, WSN Conference Administrator
>Leisure and Sport Research Unit
>Faculty of Environment and Leisure
>Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
>Swindon Road
>Cheltenham
>GL50 4AZ
>
>Telephone +44 [0]1242 544073
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>Fax  +44 [0]1242 543283

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