To celebrate the end of the first semester of the Gendered Subjects Reading Group, we’d like to invite you to a screening of  

Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingstone, 1990)

 with nibbles and a glass of wine.

Paris is Burning is a chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.

See the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtSU4iK2JVc

Details of the film here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100332/

This happy event will take place on Monday 16^th July 2012 at Northumbria University, Lipman Building Room 032 at 5pm.

Many thanks to everyone who suggested reading, ran a session, or helped organize the group.

If you can’t make it to this event we hope to see you when the sessions start again in October 2012 – let us know if you would like to suggest some reading for next year.

This is an important message regarding the reading for our first meeting this Tuesday.

The reading has changed. We will now be considering the following articles:

 'Still a Movement After all These Years? Current Tensions in the Domestic Violence Movement' by Amy Lehrner and Nicole E. Allen available here:
 http://www.csaj.org/documents/378.pdf

'The erosion of feminist self and identity in community development theory and practice' by Sue Robson and Jean Spence which is available to those with an Athens login here: http://cdj.oxfordjournals.org/content/46/3/288.full.pdf. 

Copies of the articles in PDF format are available, please contact us if you would like us to email you one.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday, it promises to be a really interesting evening.

Lead a Session

Would you like to lead a session for the group? Why not contact us at genderedsubjects28@gmail.com, become our friend on Facebook, tweet us @GenderedSubject or comment on this blog. We'd love to hear from you.

First Meeting Tuesday 24th January 5.00-6.30pm Chaired By Claire Wiper PhD candidate at Northumbria University

Our inaugral meeting will be led by Clare Wiper, a PhD candidate at Northumbria University.

The reading for this session is as follows:

Crenshaw, K., (1991). Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color.  Stanford Law Review, 43(6), pp.1214. (Accessible at: http://www.publicscienceproject.org/wp-nt/themes/arras/images/pdf/6.pdf ). 

Volpp, L., (2003). 'On Culture, Difference and Domestic Violence'  Gender, Social Policy and Law, 10, pp.393

See you there.

Read all about the Gendered Subjects Research Group here...

http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/about/humanities/englishhome/englresearch/groups/Gend_Sub/