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Gender, Generation and the Body: 21st Annual Conference of the West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network
On Saturday 21st June, Cardiff University will host Gender, Generation and the Body, the 21st annual conference of the West of England and South West Women's History Network. The keynote lecture will be given by Dr. Garthine Walker on 'Sex, Age and Bodies: "Victim-Blaming" and Culpability in the History of Rape c. 1500-1800'. The conference will be accompanied by a small exhibition...
Call for Papers | Decolonizing Fitness: An anthology on Women of Color, Feminism, and the Politics of “Fit” Bodies
Decolonizing Fitness: Women of Color, Feminism, and the Politics of “Fit” Bodies
Deadline for Abstracts: May 25, 2014
Notifications: May 30, 2014
First Draft Due: October 1, 2014
Editor: Larissa M. Mercado-López, Ph.D., Women’s Studies, California State University, Fresno
Several works have broken ground in critical feminist approaches to fitness, including Leslie Heywood’s Bodymakers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women’s Bodybuilding, Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda...
Call for papers CIT: Female bodies, Image and Time. An Interdisciplinary History of Looking | University of Granada, 26-28th of June 2014
We welcome you at the University of Granada you from 26 to 28 June 2014 to the CIT (Female bodies, Image and Time. An Interdisciplinary History of Looking) International Congress. This conference will focus on works that tackle the looking at the female body from an interdisciplinary perspective as suggested by the following examples:
Female bodies and literature: the body...