CIGS Reading Group: "The Tenacity of the Couple Norm"
We are excited to announce our first reading group session for this academic year on Wednesday 25th November, 4-5pm. We will be reading a...
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Writing Together Tuesdays is back!
During lockdown, we began holding afternoon 'Writing Together' sessions once a week. It began as an experiment, but as time went on, we accumulated over...
Book prize success for 'Beautyscapes: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism'
We are delighted to announce that the book, Beautyscapes: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism (2019, Manchester University Press) has been awarded the 2020 Foundation for the Sociology...
Sexual violence at gigs
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...
Vagina dialogues: theorizing the ‘designer vagina’ - new book chapter by Ruth Holliday
Professor Ruth Holliday has been writing about 'designer vagina's. Her chapter 'Vagina dialogues: theorizing the "designer vagina"' is published in Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries: Making the Gendered Body in a Globalized World (Routledge).
Caring for the clone, kinship and control
Greg Hollin discusses how we need to think about kinship more broadly if we to understand the implications of animal cloning for medical purposes.
What does the vote mean to you? 100 years of votes for women
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.
Women’s Perceptions of Domestic Violence in the Punjab, Pakistan
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.
#Metoo and the task of coalition building to combat violence against women
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.
Thanksgiving: the relationship between sport, society and oppression. Introduction.
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.