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Date: 5 September 2013 14:01:28 BST
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Subject: FW: Call for papers: Gender, Equality and Intimacy: (un)comfortable bedfellows? IOE, London, 7th 2014

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Gender, Equality and Intimacy: (un)comfortable bedfellows?

Call for papers

1-day workshop at the Institute of Education, London, 7th April 2014

The topics of gender, equality and intimacy are becoming increasingly established as important subjects of investigation in the social sciences, with much of the literature pointing to their intersections in the context of personal life (Gabb 2010, Jamieson 1998, Smart 2007) and the clash between ‘ideal’ relationships promoted by policy and expert or self-help literature with the pragmatics of family life (Gillies 2009, Jensen and Tylor 2013). For example, while there is a commitment to encouraging ‘gender equality’ in working cultures and family life in contemporary UK policy, wider cultures of parenting rely on heavily gendered models of appropriate care (Dermot 2008, Faircloth 2013). This workshop seeks to explore further how such intersections of equality and intimacy are experienced by men, women and families, whether as part of a wider ‘therapeutic turn’ in the ethics of self-knowledge (Furedi 2004, Hochschild 2003, Illouz 2007) or as part of a modernisation project in the context of nation building (Twamley 2011).

The workshop will showcase research from junior and mid-level academics with more senior scholars invited to act as discussants. Confirmed discussants include Prof Lynn Jamieson, Prof Jeffrey Weeks and Dr. Jacqui Gabb. We anticipate producing an edited volume or special journal issue from the workshop.

Further information about potential topics and abstract submission are attached.

Dr Katherine Twamley
John Adams Research Fellow
Social Science Research Unit
Institute of Education, University of London
18 Woburn Square
London  WC1H 0NR


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