GENDERING 2020(+1) CONFERENCE
Thursday 4th February 2021
9:45am – 4:15pm
9:45 – 10am: Opening remarks.
10 – 11am: Session 1 – Women’s Writing Across Space and Time
Ross Cameron: “I expected something different – perhaps a wild mountain land inhabited by a half-savage people”: Rewriting Southeastern Europe in Anglo-American women’s travel writing, 1900-1914”.
Paul Thompson: “Judging the book by the cover: The semiotics of gender in lesbian pulp artwork 1950-1965”.
11 – 12pm: Session 2 – Thinking Beyond Binaries
Luan Cassal: “Where is this road going? Notes on discourses of progress in the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGAEurope) annual reviews”.
Maxwell Davies: “G[end]er Creative Parenting”.
Ashley Thornton: “Gendered pronouns usage by Chinese EL2 speakers: Investigating epicene forms”.
12pm: End of morning session.
1:45 – 2pm: Afternoon session remarks.
2 – 3pm: Session 3 – Masculinities in Crisis
Marianna Golinucci: “Like a Fearless Punk Ballad” or, redefining masculinity from a Welsh mining town. The Manic Street Preachers: a case study”.
Rebecca Jones: “#SoyBoy: Masculinity, Meat and Insult in Twenty-First Century Discourse”.
Clare Binning: “The Undateables: Inceldom, Entitlement and the State Mandated GF”.
3 – 4pm: Session 4 – The Gendered Body in the Visual Arts
Clare McKeown: “Sexual imagery and sexual violence: representational tensions in feminist campaigns”.
Rachel Thain-Gray: “Who is the ‘woman’ in the ‘women’s’ museum?”
Camila Cavalcante: “Strategies in feminist photography and the fight for abortion rights: Olivia Harris, Emma Campbell, and Laia Abril”.
4 – 4:15pm: Closing remarks.