BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//SiteBuilder 2//天美传媒 ITS Web Team//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Sociology 禄 Events X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London LAST-MODIFIED:20201010T011803Z TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London X-PROLEPTIC-TZNAME:LMT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:GMT TZOFFSETFROM:+000115 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 DTSTART:18471201T000000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:BST TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 DTSTART:19160521T020000 RDATE:19170408T020000 RDATE:19180324T020000 RDATE:19190330T020000 RDATE:19200328T020000 RDATE:19210403T020000 RDATE:19220326T020000 RDATE:19230422T020000 RDATE:19240413T020000 RDATE:19270410T020000 RDATE:19300413T020000 RDATE:19330409T020000 RDATE:19340422T020000 RDATE:19350414T020000 RDATE:19380410T020000 RDATE:19390416T020000 RDATE:19400225T020000 RDATE:19460414T020000 RDATE:19470316T020000 RDATE:19480314T020000 RDATE:19490403T020000 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END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:GMT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 DTSTART:19960101T000000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:GMT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 DTSTART:19961027T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261028T181638Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261118T150000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261118T170000 SUMMARY:FeGS + CSWG Seminar: "Weaponising Safety: The Anti-Trans Backlash and the Carceral Politics of Gender in Britain" TZID:Europe/London UID:20261118-8ac672c4a153b6b901a16343678f387f@warwick.ac.uk CREATED:20261027T105916Z DESCRIPTION:You are warmly invited to join us for a face-to-face seminar on Weaponising Safety: The Anti-Trans Backlash and the Carceral Politics of Gender in Britain featuring Prof Sarah Lamble (Birkbeck) This will t ake place as follows: Wednesday\, November 18th 15.00 to 17.00 in LIB2\, 天美传媒 Library (to access LIB2\, enter the Library build ing through this door) Abstract: What explains the rapid rise of the ant i-trans backlash in Britain\, and why have disputes about trans rights b ecome so polarised? This talk will trace the weaponisations of safety cl aims\, and the assertion that trans right pose a threat to women and chi ldren\, as key tactics in the acceleration of the organised anti-trans m ovement in Britain. Such appeals draw on carceral logics that equate pro tection with surveillance\, policing\, exclusion\, and punishment\, whil e obscuring the structural conditions that produce material insecurity\, violence and harm. Challenging the anti-trans backlash therefore requir es more than defending trans people against demonising attacks\; it requ ires a fundamental rethinking of safety politics more broadly and the ca rceral assumptions that underpin them. The talk will conclude by setting out a more transformative vision of safety\, one that is rooted in coll ective care\, socio-economic security and radical solidarity. Speaker Bi o: Sarah Lamble is Professor of Criminology & Queer Theory at Birkbeck\, University of London. Their research focusses on queer/feminist critiqu es of carceral politics\, state violence\, and the limits of punitive ap proaches to addressing harm. Lamble is co-founder of the Bent Bars Proje ct\, a letter-writing and solidarity project for LGBTQ+ prisoners in Bri tain\, and Abolitionist Futures\, which builds resources and education a round alternatives to police\, prisons and punishment. Lamble is the aut hor of Unsafe: The carceral roots of the anti-trans backlash (Haymarket Books 2026). This event is free and open to all\, but advance registrati on is required. To register for a place\, CLICK HERE. If you have any qu estions about the event\, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk If you have accessibility requirements or there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation\, you can let us know through the bo oking page above. This event is being organised by the Feminism\, Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster and the Centre for the Study of Women an d Gender. LOCATION:LIB2 (Library) CATEGORIES:Research Centre (Centre for the Study of Women and Gender) LAST-MODIFIED:20261027T105916Z ORGANIZER;CN=Maria do Mar Pereira: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261028T181638Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261112T150000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261112T170000 SUMMARY:CSWG Graduate Seminar: "Gendered Institutions: Power\, Policy and Feminist Transformation" TZID:Europe/London UID:20261112-8ac672c4a17662d601a17d2724033d48@warwick.ac.uk CREATED:20261027T113759Z DESCRIPTION:Click on this link to join the seminar at 15:00 (GMT). 艦efika 脰zer Nottingham Trent University Evolving Perspectives of Muslim Femini sts Regarding Gender\, State and Religion in Turkey The Muslim women鈥檚 r ights movement in Turkey began in the 1980s and 1990s\, especially after the state banned the wearing of the Islamic headscarf at universities. This was part of a renewed secular agenda following a government policy change. However\, the Muslim women in the movement never identified them selves as feminists. Since 2015\, a shift occurred as a new feminist mov ement emerged among Muslim women in Turkey\, highlighted by the founding of the first Muslim feminist association in 2018. This is an important development because feminism has always been historically associated wit h secularism and secular people as an ideology and a movement in Turkey. This paper aims to explore the evolution of secular perspectives among Muslim feminists in Turkey\, examining the similarities and differences in their journeys. Additionally\, the study aims to investigate how thes e feminists situate themselves in relation to other women鈥檚 movements in Turkey and the social\, historical and political contexts they are embe dded in. This study adopts a qualitative research design\, utilising the two qualitative research methods: in-depth interviews and participant o bservation. Interviews with Muslim feminists are conducted to explore th eir unique journeys in reaching their current ideological position regar ding feminism\, secularism and religion. Also\, data is gathered during active participation in public meetings of Muslim feminist organisations in Turkey. In addition to the speeches during the meetings\, the intera ction between the organisation's members is also explored to understand how they resist the patriarchal structures in society as a community. So fiya Volvakova University College Dublin Left Behind: Gendered Dispariti es in School Exclusions across England and Northern Ireland A growing nu mber of school exclusions such as suspensions and expulsions in the Unit ed Kingdom (UK) have been the focus of much public debate and sociologic al discussion in recent years. Furthermore\, an increasing body of liter ature reports on disproportionality within disciplinary decisions\, high lighting that punitive measures affect the most vulnerable and marginali sed students first. However\, few studies in the context of the UK have taken a comparative perspective when investigating disproportionality wi thin a growing number of school exclusion decisions. Using cross-nationa l publicly available official statistics and data from Freedom of Inform ation Requests (FOI) from the Department of Education (England) and Depa rtment for Education (Northern Ireland)\, this paper tracks the evolutio n of school exclusions over time and investigates whether disproportiona lity still holds true when comparing a country with a high number of exc lusions (England) and a low number of exclusions (Northern Ireland). The findings reveal a notable rise in the number of school exclusion follow ing the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic\, alongside persistent dispropor tionality regarding the exclusion of boys\, both historically and at pre sent times. The paper concludes that more robust monitoring and deeper q ualitative inquiries are urgently needed across both national contexts. Meike Schneiders London School of Economics (LSE) A Perfect Match- Combi ning Care and Justice for Transformative Feminist Policy After 40 years of feminist policies\, they still have relatively little impact. In this paper\, I argue for this to be the case because neoliberal feminism\, w hich is dominant in politics\, is unable to fulfill the criteria of a tr ansformative feminist policy. To unleash its potential for change\, I cl aim that supplementation of current moral reasoning processes focusing o n justice with Care Ethics is needed. Justice and Care need to be combin ed to compensate for their respective weaknesses. To enable caring and m eaningful caring relationships in society I detect three barriers that n eed to be removed initiated by the state: profit in the care economy\, g ender stereotypes in everyday life\, and assumed gender neutrality in po licy making. This problem analysis is supported by proposals for concret e measures to be taken by the state. Dhrupti Singh Aston University Beyo nd Gender? Extending Feminist Institutionalism to Institutions Child Sex ual Abuse Feminist theory has provided important insights into the gende red operation of institutions\, particularly in explaining women鈥檚 exper iences of sexual harassment\, discrimination\, and silencing. This paper argues that feminist institutionalism (FI) can be extended to examine i nstitutional child sexual abuse (CSA)\, an area that remains comparative ly underdeveloped within feminist institutional analysis. Drawing on cas es of alleged CSA associated with British political institutions\, the s tudy examines how institutional power\, gendered norms\, and practices o f silencing shape both experiences of abuse and institutional responses. FI conceptualises institutions as constituted through formal rules and informal norms that are gendered and embedded within everyday institutio nal practices (Guido\, Walsh and Banaszak\, 2023\; Kenny and Mackay\, 20 09). This perspective is valuable for examining how constructions of mas culinity\, authority\, credibility\, and vulnerability influence which a llegations are recognised\, suppressed\, or marginalised (Mackay\, Kenny and Chappell\, 2010). By bringing children more centrally into feminist institutional analysis\, the paper explores how power operates across a ge as well as gender\, and how institutional cultures may enable abuse a nd subsequent silencing. It ultimately considers how feminist theory can be expanded to better account for the institutional dynamics surroundin g CSA. LOCATION:Online via Teams URL:/fac/soc/sociology/research/gender/calendar/grad uateseminars202627/gss-sessions/ ATTACH:/fac/soc/sociology/research/gender/calendar/g raduateseminars202627/gss-sessions/ CATEGORIES:Research Centre (Centre for the Study of Women and Gender) LAST-MODIFIED:20261027T113759Z ORGANIZER;CN=Maria do Mar Pereira: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261028T181638Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261204T090000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261204T130000 SUMMARY:CSWG Writing Session TZID:Europe/London UID:20261204-8ac672c5a15746b001a15f0d42752f0f@warwick.ac.uk CREATED:20261021T152106Z DESCRIPTION:Do you have a bit of writing to work on but struggle to find the space and time to properly focus on it? Do you find it easier to foc us when you're in a room with other people who are also working on their writing? Then join us for the CSWG writing sessions\, a morning when st aff and students get together in the same room to work on their writing independently\, but in the company of others! These sessions are open to both staff and students (UG\, PGT and PGR). They will run during the Au tumn Term\, as follows: Week 5: Friday 6 November\, 9 am 鈥 1 pm Week 7: Friday 20 November\, 9 am 鈥 1 pm Week 9: Friday 4 December\, 9 am - 1 pm Sessions will be held in S1.50\, located in the Social Sciences Buildin g. Advance registration is not required - just turn up! Sessions will be based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat mode l\, in which sessions are facilitated and divided into a series of fixed \, timed writing slots\, with everyone working silently and independentl y\, in the same room at the same time. Details on how the sessions will run are outlined below. Plans for the Sessions We will discuss our writi ng/research goals at the beginning and end of the session\, and the faci litator will tell you when to start and when to stop writing. Writing bl ocks will typically last 30鈥45 minutes or up to 1 hour\, with 10-minute breaks in between. The facilitator will use a timer\, so you can focus e ntirely on your work without watching the clock. We work to a policy of 'no surveillance'\, so you鈥檒l be responsible for setting your own writin g goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged (unless needed). How to prepare? To make the most out of the writing time\, we advise the follo wing: Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis\, a journal article or book chapter)\; Undertake most of the reading needed for your piece of writing\; Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter\ , including notes\, plans\, outlines\, data\, etc. Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop\, charger\, notes\, readings. If necess ary\, you may use the sessions for preparatory tasks such as reading art icles\, provided this does not disturb others who are writing. LOCATION:S1.50 CATEGORIES:Research Centre (Centre for the Study of Women and Gender) LAST-MODIFIED:20261021T152106Z ORGANIZER;CN=Maria do Mar Pereira: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261028T181638Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270324T150000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270324T170000 SUMMARY:CSWG Graduate Seminar: "Intimate and Contested Worlds: Sexuality\ , Belonging\, Representation and Technology" TZID:Europe/London UID:20270324-8ac672c5a17b89ad01a17d2b309530c6@warwick.ac.uk CREATED:20261027T114224Z DESCRIPTION:Click on this link to join the seminar. Isabella Taylor Unive rsity of Warwick Your Digital Dream Girl: How AI Girlfriends Enforce Gen dered Expectations of Beauty and Emotional Labour Zoi Arvanitidou鈥檚 arti cle 鈥楥oded Femininity鈥 and Ellen Atlanta鈥檚 Pixel Flesh explores how wome n are compelled to digitally alter their bodies\, where biases are encod ed within AI algorithms reproduce the images of slender\, conventionally attractive women it has been trained on. The AI girlfriend takes this t o the extreme. A woman unburdened by her body\, she can be reshaped\, ed ited at the will of her user. 鈥極utsourcing Love鈥 recognises that AI comp anions repeatedly take on the appearance of youthful\, beautiful women\, reporting that this may have a positive effect on the self-esteem of me n interacting with beautiful fem-bots\, the impact it can have on their ability to form meaningful connections with real women\, and the objecti fication it encourages\, is concerning. Many chatbots also promise emoti onal and sexual fulfilment\, locked behind a paywall that entices users to spend on subscriptions and cosmetics in return for perceived affectio n. Reducing women to purchasable objects further encourages objectificat ion\, despite no real woman being involved. The chatbot acts as a simula crum created to please\, with no desires of her own- aside from the ones you pick for her. When the AI girlfriend reflects the 鈥榩erfect woman鈥 t his further contributes to pressures women face. Kit Pyne-Jaeger Columbi a University The Perverse Past: Lee Edelman\, Vernon Lee\, and Anti-Repr oductive Archival Fictions This presentation takes up the supernatural f iction of Vernon Lee and the queer negativity of Lee Edelman\, namesakes a century apart\, to map a sexually transgressive conceit of archival a nd historical engagement in Lee鈥檚 work. I argue that Lee envisions archi val objects as sites for a practice of speculative historiography in whi ch individualized affective and aesthetic response constitutes an altern ative narrative space that 鈥渂ulges鈥 (Lee鈥檚 own term) into evidentiary re ality. Reading Lee via Edelman鈥檚 formulation of the queer death drive\, I suggest that this narrative space is one of erotic perversity\, queer fatality\, and anti-reproductive allure: dense with imaginative and quee r potential\, it also threatens to estrange the creative historian from self and tangible present. In this space\, Lee鈥檚 archival methodology is articulated through a series of ghosts\, phantoms of the (un)historical past who figure the sexual non-normativity and temporal inversion she a ssociates with speculative history-making. From a female serial murderer who enchants a historian through letters to the voice of an Italian cas trato that begins to possess a composer\, Lee鈥檚 complexly gendered ghost s illustrate what Edelman terms the 鈥渋narticulable surplus that dismantl es the subject\,鈥 a queerness in opposition to futurity that emerges fro m a passionate excess of archival feeling. Kianna Hinds London School of Economics (LSE) Dominating Images: Framing Black Lesbian Identities Acr oss Global Cinema Film serves as a viable site of analysis for sexuality \, functioning as a vehicle to analyse the normalised and disavowed sexu al behaviours and identities in the social world. Building on Patricia H ill Collins鈥檚 (1991) theory of controlling Images\, this paper develops a theoretical typology\, Dominating Images\, to conceptualise how transn ational media frame and construct Black lesbian identities. I argue that despite contemporary liberatory portrayals\, global cinema reproduces s ystemic violence by confining Black lesbian representations to three pri mary Dominating Images: the perpetual lesbian victim\, marginal high fem me\, and aggressive stud. Using Black feminist discourse analysis and so cial constructionist theory\, this paper dissects these tropes across fi lms from the UK\, Jamaica\, Amsterdam and South Africa. Through close te xtual readings of Zanele Muholi & Peter Goldsmid鈥檚 Difficult Love (2010) \, Micah Fink鈥檚 The Abominable Crime (2011)\, and Campbell X鈥檚 Stud Life (2012)\, the analysis shows how intersecting social identities of race\ , gender\, and sexuality influence Black lesbian cinematic images. This paper examines how both mainstream and independent cinema often deny bla ck lesbians authentic\, whole representations\, offering a critical fram ework for decoding the visual politics of race\, gender and sexuality in contemporary film. Jiayu Shi University of Strathclyde Making Scotland Home: Queer Belonging among Chinese Postgraduate Students This paper exa mines how queer Chinese postgraduate students come to imagine Scotland a s a possible home. Drawing on qualitative interviews with LGBTQ+ student s who completed their undergraduate education in mainland China before m oving to Scotland for postgraduate study\, it explores how belonging dev elops through ordinary experiences of recognition\, intimacy\, safety an d everyday life. Rather than treating migration as a straightforward mov ement from repression to freedom\, the paper shows how the possibility o f staying is produced unevenly. Participants described becoming attached to Scotland through mundane routines\, friendships\, intimate relations hips and a reduced need to manage or conceal their queer lives. Yet thes e attachments remained conditional. Immigration status\, employment pros pects\, class resources and obligations to family in China continued to shape whether a future in Scotland could be imagined or sustained. I arg ue that queer homemaking is best understood as an ongoing and relational process rather than a settled sense of belonging. 鈥淗ome鈥 emerges throug h the accumulation of ordinary practices that make particular forms of q ueer life more liveable\, while remaining constrained by transnational a nd structural inequalities. LOCATION:Online via Teams URL:/fac/soc/sociology/research/gender/calendar/grad uateseminars202627/session4/ ATTACH:/fac/soc/sociology/research/gender/calendar/g raduateseminars202627/session4/ CATEGORIES:Research Centre (Centre for the Study of Women and Gender) LAST-MODIFIED:20261027T114224Z ORGANIZER;CN=Maria do Mar Pereira: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261028T181638Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261106T090000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261106T130000 SUMMARY:CSWG Writing Session TZID:Europe/London UID:20261106-8ac672c6a153b34e01a15f0c31a31d5b@warwick.ac.uk CREATED:20261021T151957Z DESCRIPTION:Do you have a bit of writing to work on but struggle to find the space and time to properly focus on it? Do you find it easier to foc us when you're in a room with other people who are also working on their writing? Then join us for the CSWG writing sessions\, a morning when st aff and students get together in the same room to work on their writing independently\, but in the company of others! These sessions are open to both staff and students (UG\, PGT and PGR). They will run during the Au tumn Term\, as follows: Week 5: Friday 6 November\, 9 am 鈥 1 pm Week 7: Friday 20 November\, 9 am 鈥 1 pm Week 9: Friday 4 December\, 9 am - 1 pm Sessions will be held in S1.50\, located in the Social Sciences Buildin g. Advance registration is not required - just turn up! Sessions will be based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat mode l\, in which sessions are facilitated and divided into a series of fixed \, timed writing slots\, with everyone working silently and independentl y\, in the same room at the same time. Details on how the sessions will run are outlined below. Plans for the Sessions We will discuss our writi ng/research goals at the beginning and end of the session\, and the faci litator will tell you when to start and when to stop writing. Writing bl ocks will typically last 30鈥45 minutes or up to 1 hour\, with 10-minute breaks in between. The facilitator will use a timer\, so you can focus e ntirely on your work without watching the clock. We work to a policy of 'no surveillance'\, so you鈥檒l be responsible for setting your own writin g goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged (unless needed). How to prepare? To make the most out of the writing time\, we advise the follo wing: Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis\, a journal article or book chapter)\; Undertake most of the reading needed for your piece of writing\; Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter\ , including notes\, plans\, outlines\, data\, etc. Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop\, charger\, notes\, readings. If necess ary\, you may use the sessions for preparatory tasks such as reading art icles\, provided this does not disturb others who are writing. LOCATION:S1.50 CATEGORIES:Research Centre (Centre for the Study of Women and Gender) LAST-MODIFIED:20261021T151957Z ORGANIZER;CN=Maria do Mar Pereira: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261028T181638Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261120T090000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261120T130000 SUMMARY:CSWG Writing Session TZID:Europe/London UID:20261120-8ac672c6a153b34e01a15f0cf5dc1d5f@warwick.ac.uk CREATED:20261021T152047Z DESCRIPTION:Do you have a bit of writing to work on but struggle to find the space and time to properly focus on it? Do you find it easier to foc us when you're in a room with other people who are also working on their writing? Then join us for the CSWG writing sessions\, a morning when st aff and students get together in the same room to work on their writing independently\, but in the company of others! These sessions are open to both staff and students (UG\, PGT and PGR). They will run during the Au tumn Term\, as follows: Week 5: Friday 6 November\, 9 am 鈥 1 pm Week 7: Friday 20 November\, 9 am 鈥 1 pm Week 9: Friday 4 December\, 9 am - 1 pm Sessions will be held in S1.50\, located in the Social Sciences Buildin g. Advance registration is not required - just turn up! Sessions will be based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat mode l\, in which sessions are facilitated and divided into a series of fixed \, timed writing slots\, with everyone working silently and independentl y\, in the same room at the same time. Details on how the sessions will run are outlined below. Plans for the Sessions We will discuss our writi ng/research goals at the beginning and end of the session\, and the faci litator will tell you when to start and when to stop writing. Writing bl ocks will typically last 30鈥45 minutes or up to 1 hour\, with 10-minute breaks in between. The facilitator will use a timer\, so you can focus e ntirely on your work without watching the clock. We work to a policy of 'no surveillance'\, so you鈥檒l be responsible for setting your own writin g goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged (unless needed). How to prepare? To make the most out of the writing time\, we advise the follo wing: Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis\, a journal article or book chapter)\; Undertake most of the reading needed for your piece of writing\; Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter\ , including notes\, plans\, outlines\, data\, etc. Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop\, charger\, notes\, readings. If necess ary\, you may use the sessions for preparatory tasks such as reading art icles\, provided this does not disturb others who are writing. LOCATION:S1.50 CATEGORIES:Research Centre (Centre for the Study of Women and Gender) LAST-MODIFIED:20261021T152047Z ORGANIZER;CN=Maria do Mar Pereira: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261028T181638Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261216T150000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261216T170000 SUMMARY:CSWG Graduate Seminar: "Gendered Violence: Naming Harm\, Negotiat ing Justice\, Imagining Resistance" TZID:Europe/London UID:20261216-8ac672c7a17b894f01a17d28f1ef0956@warwick.ac.uk CREATED:20261027T113957Z DESCRIPTION:Click on this link to join the seminar on Dec 16\, at 15:00 ( GMT). Darcie Thomas 天美传媒 "Her Sufferings were so Great and Intolerable": Historicising Domestic Abuse through a Feminist Lens I f the primary function of the law is to respond to social problems\, dom estic abuse ought to be considered a recent phenomenon. Under UK law\, c oercive control was only defined and criminalised in 2015 under the Seri ous Crime Act\, and the first domestic abuse act came into being in 2021 . However\, just because domestic abuse was not codified in law\, does n ot mean such behaviour was not occurring\, and the history of domestic a buse demands further investigation. Focusing on the eighteenth-century\, my seminar examines how domestic abuse was not an unfortunate consequen ce of English marriage law\, rather\, the conditions required for its pr evalence were embedded into the law鈥檚 very essence. To demonstrate this\ , we will examine proto-feminist and legal theorist Sarah Chapone鈥檚 trea tise The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives (1735). We w ill consider the ways in which Chapone depicts marital cruelty\, documen ting patterns of behaviour that could be acknowledged as domestic abuse today. In so doing\, we will debate the value of bringing modern domesti c abuse research into historical narratives\, enabling us to think more broadly about the strengths and challenges of using interdisciplinary re search for the advancement of feminist scholarship. Franica Camilleri Un iversity of Malta Voices Unheard: Survivors' Experiences of Navigating F amily Court in Domestic Violence Cases This presentation draws on a revi ew of the literature to examine survivors' experiences of navigating fam ily court in cases of domestic violence. While much of the existing disc ourse on justice responses to domestic violence centres on the criminal justice system\, family court remains an under-examined site where survi vors often continue to encounter their abuser through custody and access proceedings long after a relationship has ended. The literature points to family court as a space where survivors can experience further trauma \, compounded by a lack of trauma-informed awareness among some professi onals and a system not designed with survivors' safety and wellbeing at its centre. This presentation argues for the need for trauma-informed ap proaches within family court\, and situates this argument within a broad er doctoral project that ultimately aims to centre survivors' own voices and experiences\, rather than institutional or professional perspective s\, in understanding how the justice system responds to domestic violenc e. In doing so\, it seeks to shift the conversation about court reform b ack to the people it should serve: survivors themselves\, and what justi ce means from their perspective. This will be of interest to those worki ng in gender studies\, socio-legal studies\, family law\, psychology\, a nd social policy. Ellie Buxton Loughborough University Engaging Men in t he Conversation: How Should we Respond to Misogyny in the UK? This paper evaluates the impact of Law 2114 of 2021 in Colombia\, which expanded p aternity leave\, introduced shared parental leave\, and created flexible part-time schemes to redistribute caregiving responsibilities between m en and women. Using microdata from the Colombian Household Survey (GEIH) for 2019鈥2023 and a difference-in-differences (DiD) approach\, we estim ate the law鈥檚 effects on five labor outcomes: pension contributions\, la bor income\, hours worked\, inactivity\, and self-employment. The analys is is disaggregated by gender\, marital status\, and sector to capture h eterogeneous responses.Findings reveal significant effects among specifi c subgroups. Fertile women experienced lower inactivity and more hours w orked\, particularly in stable sectors such as education\, health\, and public administration\, where pension contributions also rose. Married f ertile women\, eligible for shared leave\, showed further declines in in activity. For fertile men\, overall effects were limited\, yet in non-pa ndemic-affected sectors pension contributions and self-employment increa sed significantly. These results suggest that while aggregate impacts re main modest\, the reform fostered measurable labor adjustments where ins titutional and household conditions favored co-responsibility. We conclu de that expanding paternity leave and enabling shared\, flexible schemes are important steps\, but insufficient to transform gendered labor and care dynamics in a highly informal labor market. More ambitious reforms\ , structural incentives\, and cultural change are required for effective co-responsibility. Millie Guy 天美传媒 Flexible Patriarchy ? How did Secondary School Girls' Exercise Agency in a Context of Rape C ulture? Research on violence against women and girls has increasingly fo cused on the harmful sexual behaviours (HSB) girls experience within sch ools\, identified as key sites of gendered violence. However\, current r esearch underexplores how girls themselves navigate HSB within a context of rape culture in UK secondary schools. The study used creative\, qual itative methods with women aged 18鈥23 to explore what forms of HSB they experienced in secondary school and how they exercised agency in respons e. Girls鈥 complicit agency was most prevalent\, as participants largely felt unable to challenge rape culture norms. Resistant agency was presen t but remained constrained\, as its sustainability was dependent on coll ective performance. Most significantly\, some girls negotiated a hybrid form of agency that was both resistant and complicit\, avoiding social r epercussions while simultaneously disapproving of HSB. These findings sh ow that girls鈥 agency\, although meaningful\, remains structurally const rained\, complicating binary understandings of agency as either resistan t to or complicit with patriarchal structures. The study proposes the co ncept of flexible patriarchy to capture how such structures accommodate rather than simply suppress resistant agency. This research offers insig ht for future research and interventions grounded in girls鈥 existing and attainable forms of agency rather than idealised models of resistance. LOCATION:Online via Teams URL:/fac/soc/sociology/research/gender/calendar/grad uateseminars202627/session2/ ATTACH:/fac/soc/sociology/research/gender/calendar/g raduateseminars202627/session2/ CATEGORIES:Research Centre (Centre for the Study of Women and Gender) LAST-MODIFIED:20261027T113957Z ORGANIZER;CN=Maria do Mar Pereira: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261028T181638Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270217T150000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270217T170000 SUMMARY:CSWG Graduate Seminar: "Gendered Labour\, Time and Social Reprodu ction" TZID:Europe/London UID:20270217-8ac672c7a17b894f01a17d2a271d095c@warwick.ac.uk CREATED:20261027T114116Z DESCRIPTION:Click on this link to join the seminar on Feb 17 at 15:00 (GM T). Telma Marisa Ojeda Velez University of Iceland Perpetuating Harm: In stitutional Complicity and the Experiences of Foreign Women in Icelandic Academia Nordic higher education institutions publicly commit to equali ty and inclusion\, yet internationalization has reshaped academic labour markets\, leaving foreign women exposed to precarious contracts and lim ited institutional protection. This paper examines how foreign women in Icelandic academia experience employment-based violence (EBV) as persona l violence enabled and sustained by structural conditions. European rese arch shows such violence is widespread and structurally embedded. In Ice land\, research has examined workplace harassment and feminist activism in academia\, yet has largely excluded non-Icelandic speakers. The study employs a longitudinal qualitative design\, drawing on narrative interv iews with seven foreign women working in Icelandic academia (2022鈥2023)\ , with five returning for follow-up interviews in 2025\, analysed using inductive thematic analysis. As a foreign woman working in Icelandic aca demia\, I share participants' subject position\, and this proximity has informed reflexivity throughout the study. The analysis draws on structu ral violence theory and an account of institutional complaint\, showing how unaddressed complaints sustain structural violence beneath a facade of equality commitments. Findings reveal that personal and structural vi olence are intertwined and feed on each other\, neither existing without the other: individual acts are enabled by structural conditions such as precarious contracts and absent redress\, while their repeated\, unaddr essed occurrence entrenches structural harm. Institutions consistently f ail to intervene\, normalising violence and undermining equality commitm ents\, calling for accountability beyond performative frameworks. Laia N ualart Moratalla Autonomous University of Barcelona The Ambivalent Role of Reproductive Work Among Unemployed Young Women: Effects on Sociabilit y\, Social Networks and the Labour-Market Re-entry Unemployment has long been recognised as generating consequences that extend beyond the loss of income\, including increased social isolation and the disruption of e veryday social relations (Jahoda et al.\, 1933/1971\; Gallie et al.\, 20 03\; Gallie and Paugam\, 2004). Although these relational consequences a re unevenly distributed across social groups\, little attention has been paid to how they are shaped by intersecting inequalities. This paper ar gues that this gap stems from unemployment research being largely modell ed on the experiences of adult men and from an employment-centred unders tanding of work that overlooks other types of work\, such as reproductiv e work. Drawing on situated intersectionality (Yuval-Davis\, 2015) and f eminist approaches to work\, particularly the Total Social Organisation of Labour (Glucksmann\, 1995)\, the paper examines how reproductive work shapes the relational consequences of unemployment. Based on 32 biograp hical interviews with unemployed young mothers in Barcelona\, Spain\, th e findings reveal an ambivalent role of reproductive work. While intensi ve reproductive work restructures sociability around family\, neighbourh ood and childcare spaces\, creating new forms of social support and acce ss to employment-related information\, it also weakens employment-relate d ties and can constrain labour market re-entry through caring responsib ilities. The paper challenges employment-centred understandings of unemp loyment and highlights the value of bringing situated intersectionality into dialogue with feminist approaches to work. Mariami Ochkhikidze Otto -von-Guericke University of Magdeburg Invisible Reproduction Across Bord ers: the Emotional and Cultural Labour of Georgian Migrant Women in Care Work The globalisation of the market economy has increased demand for m igrant women from developing countries to fill low-paid care and service jobs in wealthier societies\, contributing to the feminisation of migra tion. Georgian migrant women are part of this global trend\; however\, t hey not only organise care responsibilities across borders but also navi gate strong cultural expectations around motherhood\, caregiving\, and f amily responsibility. Therefore\, this research examines how Georgian mi grant women鈥檚 experiences of emotional and cultural labour reveal invisi ble forms of social reproduction that sustain families across borders. T he study draws on feminist social reproduction theory\, Hochschild鈥檚 con ceptualisation of emotional labour\, and Bourdieu鈥檚 concepts of capital and habitus. It is based on six semi-structured expert interviews with G eorgian migrant women employed primarily in care-related occupations in Europe and Turkey. Using qualitative content analysis\, the study combin es deductive categories derived from theory with inductively generated t hemes emerging from the interviews. The findings show that migration doe s not remove women鈥檚 reproductive responsibilities but transforms them a cross borders. Women continue to perform emotional\, cultural\, and econ omic labour through emotional restraint\, maintaining family relationshi ps\, transmitting values\, and supporting their families financially. Cu ltural reproduction extends beyond traditions and rituals to include dis positions such as sacrifice\, resilience\, and devotion\, which are cruc ial to Georgian motherhood and womanhood. The thesis contributes to rese arch on migration and social reproduction by highlighting the emotional and cultural dimensions of transnational labour and how these forms of l abour remain largely invisible and undervalued. Sladjana Jeremic Univers ity of Belgrade The intensification of Time through Emotional Labor in W omen's Remote Work This conference paper explores how different forms of emotional labor contribute to time intensification for women\, using th e example of women鈥檚 remote work in the European semi-periphery of Serbi a. Benjamin Snyder鈥檚 contention that time density and intensity are more appropriate concepts for measuring time flow in contemporary capitalism than quantity is examined in relation to different aspects of women鈥檚 l ives\, such as domestic and virtual paid work. Analysis of interviews wi th 25 millennial women from Serbia\, along with the researcher鈥檚 autoeth nographic reflection on her own experience of remote work\, indicates th at time intensification is connected to the emotional effort women emplo y while juggling different activities throughout their workday. This emo tional effort manifests in the pronounced perfectionism\, conscientiousn ess\, and care for others associated with the role of a 'good' girl\, wh ich\, as part of the gendered emotional response to growing social insec urity\, becomes reinforced and exploited by capital. LOCATION:Online via Teams URL:/fac/soc/sociology/research/gender/calendar/grad uateseminars202627/session3/ ATTACH:/fac/soc/sociology/research/gender/calendar/g raduateseminars202627/session3/ CATEGORIES:Research Centre (Centre for the Study of Women and Gender) LAST-MODIFIED:20261027T114116Z ORGANIZER;CN=Maria do Mar Pereira: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR