Papers from the UK Postgraduate Conference in Gender Studies

21-22 June 2006, University of Leeds, UK

• Sudanese Women in Exile: Islam, Politics and the State [PDF: 129KB]
  By Amina Alrasheed, University of Leeds
• Identity Politics Reloaded: competing for victim status in German memorial debates [PDF: 64KB]
  By Scout Burghardt, Humboldt-Universität Berlin & University of Sussex
• Transsexuals and other Gender-Variant People in Hong Kong [PDF: 205KB]
  By Pui Kei Eleanor Cheung, University of Hong Kong
• (Dead) Bodies that matter? Examining Prehistory from a Queer perspective [PDF: 91KB]
  By Hannah Cobb, University of Manchester
• A Cyberian In The Multiverse: towards a feminist subject position for cyberspace [PDF: 82KB]
  By Stevienna De Saille, University of Leeds
• Climbing Tales: gendered body narratives and stories of strength [PDF: 74KB]
  By Rachel Dilley, Leeds Metropolitan University
• 'The Third': a hindrance to diversity [PDF: 154KB]
  By Lena Eckert, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds
• Young women and the pursuit of status [PDF: 81KB]
  By Sarah Evans, University of Kent
• The articulation of Lesbian identities through the paradigm of visibility and invisibility in the Hungarian contex [PDF: 223KB]
  By Zita Farkas, University of the West, Timisoara, Romania
• Under Construction: the medicalization of the lesbian, 1880-1920 [PDF: 104KB]
  By RoByn D. Fishman, California State University, Long Beach
• Challenging Sociological Pessimism: practices of intermediation of work and (a good) life [PDF: 67KB]
  By Sabine Flick, Universities Kassel/Frankfurt, Germany
• Kyopo (Korean-German) Daughters in Germany: the 'self' as an analytical tool [PDF: 76KB]
  By Simone Hary, University of Sussex
• Frida Kahlo: an artist "in between" [PDF: 614KB]
  By Anna Haynes, Cardiff University
• Women of Brazil:(mis)contested female identities in contemporary Brazilian cinema [PDF: 86KB]
  By Tatiana Signorelli Heise, University of Leeds
• 'The Truth Is...': Lesbian Narratives of Gender [PDF: 98KB]
  By Fabienne Jung, University of Kent
• On Geschlecht in Brain Science Experiments [PDF: 405KB]
  By Anelis Kaiser, LSE, London and University of Basel, Switzerland
• Using Ricoeur's Oneself As Another: narrative identity, gender and relational autonomy [PDF: 112KB]
  By Alya Khan, Birbeck College, University of London
• 'Compulsory Irishness': continuity and change in the Irish rural idyll [PDF: 112KB]
  By Lia Kinane, Lancaster University
• Grounding Paternity in the Context of Assisted Conception [PDF: 107KB]
  By Julie McCandless, Keele University
• Gender budgeting and its implications for feminist research [PDF: 70KB]
  By Keerty Nakray, Belfast University
• The Fetishisation of Asian Women through the Blue Eyes of a Geisha [PDF: 102KB]
  By Jea Suk Oh, Drew University, New York, US
• Feminism and the Third Wave: politicising the sociology of religion? [PDF: 81KB]
  By Sarah Page, University of Nottingham
• Girls' Gendered Identities and the Media: feminist dis/identifications [PDF: 73KB]
  By Maud Perrier, University of Warwick
• 'Working At It': developing a theoretical orientation for researching post-divorce/separation fatherhood [PDF: 91KB]
  By Georgia Philip, Open University
• Researching Prostitution: the challenges of researching sex work in Thailand [PDF: 99KB]
  By Erin Sanders, University of Nottingham
• Here's to you Mrs Robinson: alienation, allegory and the American Wet Dream [PDF: 75KB]
  By Jayne Sheridan, Huddersfield University
• Women in the British Military [PDF: 85KB]
  By Angela Clare Smith, University of Leeds
• Gender Regimes During and After Socialism: Bulgarian women's experiences of employment [PDF: 181KB]
  By Mariya Stoilova, University of Leeds
• Flower of the Nation: gendered representations of Thailand beyond the borders [PDF: 77KB]
  By Paweena Subhimaros, University of Leeds
• Professional Intervention in Sex Crime Policing and Expert Witnessing Hetero- and Homosexual Sex Crimes [PDF: 341KB]
  By Anna C.M. Tijsseling, International Institute of Social History
• Women and Communication: measuring effectiveness and efficiency in intra- and intergender communication [PDF: 119KB]
  By Katja Wiedemann & Markus G. Kittler, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
• Ironic Identities and Earnest Desires: King Kong and the desire to-be-looked-at [PDF: 128KB]
  By Damon Young, University of California, Berkeley