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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.
As part of the Sugar Rush: Science, Obesity and the Social Life of Sugar project, Karen Throsby reflects on the impacts of research upon the researcher.
Karen Throsby explains how sugar has become the new public health bête noir and discusses her new research project exploring scientific knowledge production, validation and popular appropriation; the role of generation, gender, race an class in the production of embodied citizenship; the politics of food in the context of austerity; and contemporary panics around health and body size.
Karen Throsby's Immersion:Marathon swimming, embodiment and identity is out now with Manchester University Press. Rosemary Lucy Hill's Gender, Metal and the Media is just published with Palgrave.
CIGS Christmas Collection - please donate sanitary towels and tampons for women experiencing poverty and using food banks.
CIGS MA student, Olivia Morris, writes about gender imbalances in sport reporting.
Tuesday 13th December, 4-6pm, Social Sciences Building 12.21 / 25. Come along to the CIGS Christmas Celebration - all welcome.
Real meals: radical diets, science and the masculinisation of weight loss Wednesday 7th December 2016 12:00-13:30 Social Sciences Building 12.21/25 All welcome
Date: 14 November 2012, 5.00pm Location: Seminar Room, Beech Grove House Dr João Manuel de Oliveira: Birkbeck Institute for Social Research and University of Porto