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Conference Announcement:
Women’s Studies Network (UK) Association 14th Annual Conference
Gender and Culture: leisure, consumption and women’s everyday lives
12th – 14th July 2001, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, UK
The Leisure and Sport Research Unit at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education is pleased to announce the 2001 Women’s Studies Network (UK) Association conference. The conference will provide a major inter-disciplinary event exploring the intersections of gender with contemporary culture and consumption.
The conference will draw together participants from across the social sciences and humanities to engage with new developments in feminist and gender theory, policy, practice and activism. Art, fashion, film, leisure, literature, media, shopping, sport, television, and tourism will all be explored as cultural sites and sights that play significant roles in forming, performing and reforming contemporary gender relations, identities, and spaces. Major national and international researchers in cultural studies, gender studies, geography, leisure studies, literary studies, media studies, social policy, sociology, sports studies, tourism studies, visual arts, and women’s studies will lead discussions examining gender and culture in relation to three major themes:
leisure space, violence and the city
consumption, fashion and (life)style
language, media and visual culture
Submission of abstracts
Researchers, lecturers, policy makers, practitioners, activists and postgraduate students are invited to submit abstracts of papers. Abstracts of 300-400 words, together with brief biographical details of the researcher(s)/presenter(s) (maximum of 200 words), should be submitted to the Conference Administrator by March 12th 2001. Abstracts should contain:
name of researcher/presenter, title and organisational affiliation where appropriate
title of paper and conference theme to which the paper is submitted
300-400 word summary of the context, theoretical and/or subject underpinning and findings
Dr Cara Aitchison, Conference Chair
Reader in Leisure Policy and Cultural Theory
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
caitchison@chelt.ac.uk
Please submit abstracts to:
Heather Sheridan, WSN Conference Administrator
Leisure and Sport Research Unit
Faculty of Environment and Leisure
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
Swindon Road
Cheltenham
GL50 4AZ
Telephone: +44 [0]1242 544073
Email: hsheridan@chelt.ac.uk
Fax: +44 [0]1242 543283
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