Intimate Labour: Sociological and Historical Perspectives

Wednesday May 2nd

3.00-6.00pm

Raka Ray, UC Berkeley:

Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, Class

Domestic Immigrant Workers in Greece: welfare orientations and social prospects

4.15-4.45pm: Tea / Coffee

4.45-6.00pm

Carolyn Steedman, Warwick:

What I've Learnt from Eighteenth-Century English Servants

Kate Smith, Warwick:

Female Hands and the Politics of Touch in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Discussants: Nickie Charles and carol wolkowitz, Warwick

ALL WELCOME!

Wednesday, 2nd May, 3-6pm, IAS Seminar Room, Millburn House

Organised by: Social Theory Centre & Centre for the Study of Women & Gender

AFIYA ZIA

Feminist activist and scholar from Pakistan

Friday 24th February

Workshop/seminar “Researching Gender in Contexts of Conflict”

11:00 – 14:00 Wolfson Exchange Seminar Room 1.

Friday 2nd March

Public lecture: “Secular and Islamic Feminisms: Product of the War on Terror?”

15:00 – 17:00 Library Building Lib 1

Wednesday 14th March

Workshop/seminar “The War on Terror: an Assessment of its Impact on Women”

12:00 – 15:00 Ramphal Building R1.13

Afiya Zia is visiting warwick for a month

everyone is welcome to these events

Please contact Khursheed wadia for further information (k.wadia@warwick.ac.uk) 

GENDERING AUSTERITY 

You are invited to join us for a workshop exploring the following questions

Are the government’s austerity measures having a disproportionate impact on women?

How are they affecting gender equality?

Is there any effective opposition to the cuts and to what extent is it gendered?

How are women resisting the cuts?

Speakers:

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Diane Elson, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex, Chair of the UK Women’s Budget Group.
Austerity measures and gender equality: are there alternatives?

Claire Annesley, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Manchester, member of the UK Women’s Budget Group.
Campaigning against austerity: gender equality advocates in tough times.

Mary-Ann Stephenson, Coventry Women's Voices.
Unravelling equality: impact of the cuts on women in Coventry.

Ann Lucas, Labour Councillor, Coventry City Council
Local government and the impact on women of the cuts

Friday February 17th, 1.45 - 4.30

Ramphal 3.41

Refreshments available!

ALL WELCOME, ENTRANCE FREE.
Please email K.Throsby@warwick.ac.uk 

Spring term: workshop on women and the cuts (date to be confirmed)

SUMMER TERM: WORKSHOP ON WOMEN AND THE OLYMPICS (DATE TO BE CONFIRMED)

CONTACT KAREN THROSBY FOR FURTHER DETAILS K.Throsby@warwick.ac.uk

Gender and feminist theory reading group