Complicating Gender(s) – in Complicated Contexts

Organised by Contemporary Intimacies, Sexualities and Genders (CISG), School of Sociology and Criminology, Manchester Met.

Gender is often spoken about as if it was stable, legible, and coherent. In practice, it rarely is. Within critical gender studies it is widely acknowledged that gender is a complex, relational and contingent category whose meanings have been constantly evolving.

Complicating Gender(s) is a free-of-charge half-day symposium that brings together researchers to explore gender as lived, contested and unevenly experienced dimension of our embodied existence.

This symposium presents current research by Manchester Met and Manchester Met affiliated scholars that moves beyond simplified or singular accounts of gender, and instead foregrounds its ambiguities, contradictions and entanglements with other social and cultural forces.

The keynote will be presented by renowned researcher and theorist in gender studies, Professor Surya Monro (Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy, Loughborough University, UK).

(Abstracts available here)

Keynote: Professor Surya Monro (Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy, Loughborough University): Considering Gender Beyond the Binary: 30+ years from a (mostly) UK-located perspective

Paper Session 1: Complicating Masculinities (Chair: Anneke Meyer)

• Leah Gilman (Sociology & Criminology, Manchester Met) - Complicating Accounts of the Serial Sperm Donor

• Chris Waugh (Sociology & Criminology, Manchester Met) - Illegible Bodies, Reiterated Norms: Gender Performativity and Subcultural Ambivalence in Extreme Metal

• Kathryn Bovington (Social Sciences, Edge Hill University) - Masculinities and Intersectionality: Exploring male victim-survivor experiences of sexual violence through life history research

Paper Session 2: Complicating Femininities (Chair: Chris Waugh)

• Gaby Harris (Fashion, Manchester Met) and Hannah Walters (Education Policy, King’s College) - Girls, Aesthetics and The Politics of Fun

• Anneke Meyer (Sociology & Criminology, Manchester Met) - The Politicisation of Gender: #MeToo and the Culture Wars over Sexual Violence

• Helene Snee (Sociology & Criminology, Manchester Met) - How gender complicates social mobility

Paper Session 3: Complicating Queer Genders: Human Rights (Chair: Christian Klesse)

• Craig Griffiths (History, Manchester Met) - Gender, Human Rights, and Queer Print Culture: Trans* Negotiations of Respectability in the Weimar Republic
• Kay Lalor (Manchester Law School, Manchester Met) - Law’s Exhaustion: Legal Failure and Abolitionist Resistance in response to For Women Scotland

Organised by Anneke Meyer, Helene Snee, Chris Waugh, and Christian Klesse on behalf of CISG.

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Info: Considering Gender Beyond the Binary: 30+ years from a (mostly) UK-located perspective

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