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'Cineforum' is being run by members of the Italian department in order to screen films and have (lively) conversations about them afterwards. This term the theme is gender - first women in Italy, and secondly homosexuality - and the films oscillate between documentaries and fictions.
The next session is taking place Thursday 21 January , in H403 in the Humanities Building, (info below) and we're screening two documentaries, both with English subtitles, beginning at 6pm.
Alternative Italies:
A cineforum
The second season of our cineforum starts with an exceptional double bill exploring issues of gender in contemporary Italy:
Vogliamo anche le rose & Il corpo delle donne
Two independent documentaries aim to map out the recent history of women's struggles and critique their image in the mainstream: Vogliamo anche le rose
focuses on the deep change brought on by the feminist movement in Italy during the 1970s, whilst Il corpo delle donne exposes the objectification of women on Italian TV.
The films will be introduced at 6.00pm, on Thursday week two (21st January),
in H4.03 and the screening will be followed by a group discussion.
For the whole programme of films click here
'Women, Work and Participation' Study Group Meeting 2
Tuesday 12th January 2010 (Week 1), 4:00 - 5:30 pm.
Wolfson Research Exchange, Seminar Room 3. Library, 3rd floor.
The second meeting of the study group on women, work and participation will discuss further the concepts and debates surrounding paid/unpaid work that is carried out by women and the ways in which such work is counted/uncounted. The readings for this session are:
- From Alison Jaggar (2008), Just Methods: an Interdisciplinary Reader, Boulder, CO: Paradigm, Chapter 3 'Economics' which comprises 3 texts:
- Diana A. Strassman, "Not a Free Market: The Rhetoric of Disciplinary Authority in Economics"
- Lourdes Beneria, "Paid and Unpaid Labor: Meanings and Debates"
- Marilyn Waring, "Counting for Something! Recognizing Women's Contribution to the Global Economy through Alternative Accounting Systems"
- Catherine Hoskyns and Shirin Rai (2007), 'Recasting the Global Political Economy: Counting Women's Unpaid Work', New Political Economy 12(3): 297 - 317.
The texts can be downloaded from the web page address below:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/rsw/research_centres/gender/sgwwp/meeting2/
We hope you will find the readings interesting and stimulating.
- If you cannot finish all the readings, still come along: you can talk about what you have read!
- If you hate the readings, still come along: Share your criticisms.
There will not be a formal presentation so there will be plenty of time to discuss whatever issues you find most interesting.
We are also interested in ideas that you may have for future readings - either particular texts or topic areas that you would like to explore.
Any questions, contact: Rosario Undurraga, Rachel Cohen or Khursheed Wadia
Graduate Seminars
Click here for full 2009/2010 programme
19th Annual Conference of the Women's History Network
Performing the Self: Women's Lives in Historical Perspective
10-12 September 2010, University of Warwick
Further details here
