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Reading group

All meetings in 2008 will be in the Arthur Lewis Building, 4th floor, room 4.050 (glass meeting room near lifts) on Thursdays, 1-2 p.m.

10th April 2008, 1-2 pm

 

13th March 2008, 1-2 pm PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE TO:

Humanities Bridgeford Street 1.69/1.70 (Opposite Arthur Leiws Building)

The Gender Research Network is hosting a meeting to mark International Women's Week.

Three women from the Palestinian women's delegation to the UK, who are students at Al-Nijah, Abus Dis and Al-Quds universities, will speak about the situation of women in higher education in Palestine as part of their Twinning Network visit to Britain to promote twinning and friendship activities between Britain and Palestine.

Light refreshments will be provided.

14th February 2008, 1-2 pm

Tom Gregory will introduce a discussion of Cynthia Enloe's (2000 ed) Bananas, Beaches and Bases, Chapters 1, 4 & 9

 

10th January 2008, 1-2 pm

Business meeting

 

13th December 2007

1-2 Arthur Lewis, 4th floor, glass meeting room

 

8th November

1.00 pm - 2.00 pm Arthur Lewis 4.059

11th October

1.00 pm - 2.00 pm Arthur Lewis 4.059

11 May 2006

William A. Callahan (2006) 'Gender, Democracy and Revolutionary Photo Albums', chapter 3 in Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia, London: Routledge

- Forwarded to the Reading Group by the author

16 March 2006

Charles Tilly (1998) 'From Transactions to Structure', chapter 2 in Durable Inequality, Berkeley: University of California Press

- Recommended by Maia Green

16 February 2006

Andrew Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee (2005) ‘Daughters and Left-Wing Voting’ available at: www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/oswald/daughtersospowd2005.pdf

  • Forwarded to the Reading Group by the author

17th November  2005

Carol Smart (2000) 'New Dimensions to Gendered Power Relations in Families’ in J. Cook, J. Roberts and G. Waylen (eds) Towards an Gendered Political Economy, London Macmillan

  • Recommended by Vanessa May

20th October 2005

Rema Hammami (2004) 'Gender, Nakbe and Nation: Palestinian women’s presence and absencee in the narration of 1948 memories’ in Review of Women’s Studies Vol 2, pp. 26-41

And

Penny Johnson and Eileen Kuttab (2002) ‘Where Have All the Women (and Men) Gone? Reflections on Gender and the Second Palestinian Intifada’ in Review of Women’s Studies Vol 1 pp. 60-75

  • Recommended by Jill Lovecy

9th June 2005

Myra H. Strober (1994) 'Rethinking Economics Through a Feminist Lens' in The American Economics Review Vol 84, No 2 pp. 143-7

  • Recommended by Lucy Ferguson

Paulette I. Olsen and Zohreh Emami (2002) 'Myra Hoffenberg Strober' in Olsen and Emami (eds), Engendering Economics: Conversations with Women Economists in the United States. Routledge.

  • Recommended by Juanita Elias

28th April 2005

Rake, J (2001) 'Gender and New Labour's Social Policies' in Journal of Social Policy Vol. 30, No 2 pp 209-231

  • Recommended by Kirstein Rummery

Mazur, A. (2004) 'Introduction' in: Theorizing Feminist Policy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

  • Recommended by Claire Annesley

17 March 2005

De Goede, M. (2000) ‘Mastering “Lady Credit”. Discourses of Financial Crisis in Historical Perspective’ in International Feminist Journal of Politics Vol. 2, No. 1 pp. 58-81.

  • Recommended by Natalie Bormann

10 February 2005

Cohn, C. (1987) ‘Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals’ in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Vol. 12, No. 4 pp. 687-718

  • Recommended by Natalie Bormann / Juanita Elias

20 January 2005

Peterson, S. (2002) ‘Rewriting (Global) Political Economy as Reproductive, Productive and Virtual (Foucauldian) Economies’ in International Feminist Journal of Politics Vol. 4, No 1 pp. 1-30

Prügl, E. (2002) ‘Towards a Feminist Political Economics’ in International Feminist Journal of Politics Vol. 4, No 1 pp. 31-36

Tooze, R. (2002) ‘Reading “Rewriting” ’ in International Feminist Journal of Politics Vol. 4, No 1 pp. 43-71

  • Recommended by: Juanita Elias

11 November 2004

Fraser, N. (1994) ‘After the Family Wage. Gender equity and the welfare state’ in Political Theory Vol. 22, No. 4 pp. 591-618

  • Recommended by: Colette Fagan

Lewis, J. (2001) ‘The Decline in the Male Breadwinner Model: Implications for Work and Care’ in Social Politics Vol. 8 No. 2 152-69

  • Recommended by: Claire Annesley

14 October 2004

Ungerson, Clare (1999) ‘Personal Assistants and Disabled People: An Examination of a Hybrid Form of Work and Care’ in Work Employment and Society , Vol. 13, No. 4, pp 583-600

  • Recommended by: Kirstein Rummery