Changing Gender: The History and Future of a Concept with Susan Stryker
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As one of the most contested topics of our age, Gender is weaponised by the far right and trans lives are targeted. But what are we talking about when we talk about Gender? What are the origins of the concept itself, and where might it take us in the future?
Join us for an evening with award-winning historian and writer Prof Susan Stryker, whose work has shaped conversation on gender and feminism for decades. Prof Stryker will discuss her recently published book Changing Gender: The History and Future of a Concept.
Rooted in decades of deep research and first-hand experience, Susan Stryker's sharp-eyed analysis invites us into her lifelong quest to uncover what gender means and does. From nineteenth-century phrenology to present-day anti-trans conspiracies and examples from her lifetime as an agenda setting historian, filmmaker and activist, Stryker finds surprising places to tune into the origins, idiosyncrasies, and generative possibilities of the gender concept.
Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event.
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Meet our speaker and chair:
Professor Susan Stryker is an award-winning historian and filmmaker whose work has shaped conversation on gender and feminism for decades. She holds a visiting Professorship at Stanford University. Previous works include Transgender History and the Emmy Award-winning documentary Screaming Queens.
Dr SM Rodridguez is Associate Professor of Gender, Rights and Human Rights. Their research investigates the globalisation of abolitionist feminist practice and advances conversation on racialisation, criminalisation, ableism, and the imposition of gendered and sexual control on people of African descent.
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