Convivial Encounters in Cosmetic Surgery Tourism
By Ruth Holliday - Professor of Gender and Culture. (This post was originally published by the Sociological Review ) Cosmetic surgery for working-class and lower...
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By Ruth Holliday - Professor of Gender and Culture. (This post was originally published by the Sociological Review ) Cosmetic surgery for working-class and lower...
Rosemary Lucy Hill discusses sexual harassment, assault and groping at live music events, and what can be done about it. Pauli[i], aged 15, was watching...
Greg Hollin discusses how we need to think about kinship more broadly if we to understand the implications of animal cloning for medical purposes.
100 years on from women gaining the right to vote in the UK what does having vote mean to women in Britain? Rosemary Lucy Hill spoke to colleagues in the School of Sociology and Social Policy about their personal feelings regarding the vote. Their responses reveal a mixture of valuing the right to vote, frustration with the current political system, noting the distance still to travel and a strong sense of pride in our great grandmothers’ arguments, organisation and determination.
Faiza Tayyab, PhD candidate, School of Sociology and Social Policy, discusses the need to consider the different contexts of women's lives if we are to understand the shape of gendered violence in Pakistan.
CIGS PhD student Jessica Wild argues that we need to go beyond postfeminist individual choice arguments when considering domestic violence: the structural matters and it is vital that it be taken into account in collective feminist activism and political action.
Introduction by Greg Hollin to a special Thanksgiving collection of posts exploring the social relations of sport. Follow this link to access the entire collection.
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