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SUMMARY:Gender Fluidity: Progress and Pushbacks in the UK Today - Professo
 r Sally Hines\, University of Sheffield
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CONTACT:Abigail Youngman
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Sally Hines\, Chair of Sociology\, Universi
 ty of Sheffield\n\nChair: Professor Sarah Franklin\, Professor of Sociolog
 y\, University of Cambridge.\n\nDrawing on Sally's past and current resear
 ch on gender diversity\, recognition and social change\, the talk will con
 sider both the gains and the losses in understandings and practices of gen
 der fluidity in the contemporary UK.\n\nThe talk speaks to the recent tide
  in the UK of anti-transgender activism within some sections of feminism a
 nd aligned conservative movements\, and critically unpacks the current wav
 e of so-called 'culture wars'. Moreover\, the talk locates these UK-specif
 ic developments as part of a wider pushback against the rights of gender a
 nd sexual minorities at European and International levels and argues for t
 he urgent need of a collective intersectional politics centred around soci
 al justice and a politics of difference. \n\nDespite worrying trends\, the
  talk considers the many gains in understanding gender and sex as fluid an
 d thus positions 'anti gender' thought as representative of a conservative
  panic in the face of significant social\, cultural and legal change. \n\n
  \n\nProfessor Sally Hines\n\nProfessor Sally Hines is Chair of Sociology 
 the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield. She
  was Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Un
 iversity of Leeds\, developed interdisciplinary networks in sexuality stud
 ies at Newcastle University.\n\nSally’s research falls across the interd
 isciplinary fields of sociology\, gender studies\, social policy\, law\, p
 olitics\, health studies\, and science and technology studies.\n\nSally’
 s previous Research Council funded research centred on gender diversity an
 d identity practice\, gender and social/cultural change\, and gendered cit
 izenship and recognition.\n\nShe has published in the area of transgender\
 , gender and sexuality theory\, gender and sexual citizenship\, sociologie
 s of the body\, sociologies of intimacy\, intersectionality\, and theories
  of recognition and difference. She is currently developing work on gender
  and a politics of difference.\n\nSally is committed to public sociology a
 nd has done consultancy work on issues around the Gender Recognition Act. 
 She has acted as a legal expert in relation to trans reproductive rights a
 nd parental recognition. She frequently appeared in the media around the r
 elationship between trans and feminism.
LOCATION:Sociology Department Seminar Room\, Free School Lane and on-line
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