Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation Conference
The papers published here as the first set in the ‘Gender Institute Graduate Working Papers’ series are a selection from those given at the one-day conference held on Friday 13th March 2015. MSc students on the course gave short papers on themed panels as part of their assessments, and spent the day encouraging one another and providing useful feedback for subsequent essays.
The students are encouraged to work on topics related to (but not necessarily represented on) the course itself, and to take up and apply the theoretical approaches they had been introduced to. Areas covered included explorations of new reproductive technologies, representations of sexuality and war, questions of consent and the challenges posed by bisexual and transsexual embodiments.
We were so impressed with the level of effort and presentation that the students brought to their work that we wanted to make edited versions of these papers available to a broader audience. Students have left the papers largely as they were but with a final edit, and so these retain their original character. The papers are grouped through the original conference panels, and visitors to the site can click on the panel title or on the individual papers to access the papers.
We hope you enjoy reading these, and that you are inspired to think of other projects that might be part of this new series.
Alessandro Castellini and Clare Hemmings