University of York
Centre for Women's Studies

Staff in the Centre for Women's Studies


CENTRE STAFF

Professor Stevi Jackson
Director
Dr Ann Kaloski-Naylor
Lecturer
Professor Gabriele Griffin
Chair, Board of Studies

ASSOCIATE STAFF

Prof Haleh Afshar OBE
Politics
Dr Anne Akeroyd
Sociology
Dr Hilary Arksey
SPRU
Dr Trev Broughton
English
Dr Liz Buettner
History
Prof Roger Burrows
Sociology
Dr Joanna de Groot
History
Dr Allison Drew
Politics
Dr Sue Grace
Staff Development
Dr Leslie Hicks
Social Work Research & Development Unit
Dr Carol-Ann Hooper
Social Policy & Social Work
Dr Mark Jenner
History and 18th Century Studies
Prof C Kitzinger
Sociology
Prof M Maynard
Social Policy & Social Work
Prof S Mendus
Politics

Dr L Perriton
Centre for Management
Dr A Rees
Sociology
Harriet Badger
CWS Administrator

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Haleh Afshar OBE

BA (York) PhD (Cambridge) Professor, Department of Politics
haa1@york.ac.uk

Teaching & Research Interests

Development Studies; Women and work in the Third World and in particular in Iran; Islamic ideology and feminism; the relationship between ideology and social and economic change. Joint editor (with Mary Maynard) of Women's Studies at York/Macmillan series and of Routledge's Women and Politics Series.

Publications:

Women, Poverty and Ideology (ed) (Macmillan, 1990);Women, Development and Survival in the Third World (ed) (Longman, 1991); Women and Adjustment Politics in the Third World (ed with Caroline Dennis) (Macmillan 1992); Women and the Middle East (ed) (Macmillan, 1993); The Dynamics of Race and Gender (ed with M Maynard) (Taylor and Francis, 1994) Women and Politics in the Third World, Routledge, 1996; (ed with Fatima Alihkan) Empowering Women for Development (1997); Islam and Feminisms (1998); Women Globalization and Fragmentation in the Third World (ed with Stephanie Barrientos 1999); Women Studies in The Middle East: Some Problems and Prospects Cairo Papers in Social Science 20 (3) 1999; Gender and ethnicity at the millennium: from margin to centre (with M Maynard) Ethnic and Racial Studies 23 (5) 2000; Gender, Ethnicity and Empowerment in Later Life (with Maynard, Franks and Wray) Quality in Aging 3(1) 2002

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Anne Akeroyd

BA, MA, PhD University of London. Honorary Fellow, Department of Sociology
ava1@york.ac.uk

Teaching & Research Interests:

Socio-cultural aspects of the body and of health and illness, in particular women's health; gendered aspects of HIV/AIDS, especially in Africa, and related issues of gendered violence and of women's rights; and comparative perspectives on gender, especially in East Asia and Southern Africa
Publications

'Coercion, Constraints and "Cultural Entrapments': A Further Look at Gendered and Occupational Factors pertinent to the Transmission of HIV in Africa'. In Ezekiel, E., Craddock, S., Oppong, J. & Ghosh, J. (eds) HIV/AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology> (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003); 'Sociocultural aspects of AIDS in Africa: occupational and gender issues', pp. 11-30 in AIDS in Africa and the Caribbeanu (eds) G.C. Bond, J. Kreniske, I. Susser & J. Vincent, (Westview Press 1997); Some gendered and occupational aspects of HIV and AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa: changes, continuities and issues for further consideration at the end of the first decade (Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh University 1996); 'Gender, race and ethnicity in official statistics: social categories and the HIV/AIDS 'numbers' game', in H. Afshar and M. Maynard (eds) The dynamics of race and gender: some feminist interventions (London 1994); 'Gender, food production and property rights: constraints on women farmers in southern Africa', in H. Afshar (ed) Women, Development and Survival in the Third World (Longman 1994)

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Hilary Arksey

BA (Lancaster) PhD (Lancaster) Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Unit
ha4@york.ac.uk

Teaching & Research Interests:

Informal care; carers, disability and employment; and qualitative research methods. Currently researching carers' aspirations and decisions around work and retirement.
Publications

Arksey, H (2002) 'Rationed Care: Assessing the support needs of informal carers in English Social Service Authorities', Journal of Social Policy, 31, 81-101. Arksey, H (2002) 'Combining informal care in work: Supporting informal carers in the workplace', Health & Social Care in the Community, 10(3), 151-61. Arksey, H (2003) 'People into employment: Supporting people with disabilities and carers into work', Health & Social Care in the Community, 11(3), 283-92. Arksey, H (2003) 'Scoping the field: Services for carers of people with mental health problems', Health & Social Care in the Community 11(4), 335-44. (2003) 'Unpaid carers' access to and use of primary care services', Primary Health Care Research and Development, 6, 2, (2005) with M Hirst, 'Scoping studies: Towards a methodological framework', International Journal of Research Methodology: Theory and Practice, 8, 1, (2005) with L. O'Malley.

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Trev Broughton

BA, D Phil (York) Senior Lecturer, English
jlb2@york.ac.uk

Teaching & Research Interests

Gender in nineteenth-century prose; women's life- writing (biography, autobiography, diaries etc); Victorian masculinities; auto/photography (with Ann Kaloski), The Victorian Governess; Fathers and fatherhood in the Victorian period.
Publications:

``Cross purposes' in J de Groot and M Maynard (eds) Women's Studies in the Nineties: Doing Things Differently; `Life-Lines: Writing and Writer's Block in the Context of Women's Studies' in Davies et al (eds) Changing the Subject (London: Taylor and Francis, 1994); The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter (ed with Joseph Bristow) (Longman,1997); Women's Lives/Women's Times (ed with Linda Anderson (SUNY 1997); The Governess (ed with Ruth Symes) (Sutton 1997); Men of letters, writing lives: masculinity and literary auto/biography in the late Victorian period (Routledge, 1999) 'Autobiography and the Actual Course of Things' in Tess Cosslett et al eds Feminism and Autobiography(2001); with (Laura Potts) 'Dissonant Voices: the teacher's "personal" in women's studies' Gender and Education 13 4 (2001); 'Studying the Study: Gender and Scene of Authorship' in F. Regard (ed) Mapping the Self (2003).

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Liz Buettner

BA (Barnard) PhD (Michigan) Lecturer, Department of History
eab10@york.ac.uk

Teaching & Research Interests

19th and 20th-century British history (social, cultural and imperial; colonial South Asia; gender and ethnicity; history of childhood and the family; oral and written personal narratives; memory and commemoration.
Publications:

Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India (Oxford University Press, 2004); 'Haggis in the Raj: Private and Public Celebrations of Scottishness in Late Imperial India', Scottish Historical Review LXXXI, 2: No. 212 (October 2002), pp. 212-39. This essay was awarded David Berry Prize for 2001 by the Royal Historical Society;'From Somebodies to Nobodies: Britons Coming Home from India', in Meanings of Modernity: Britain from the Late Victorian Era to the Second World War, ed. Martin Daunton and Bernhard Rieger (Berg, 2001) pp.221-40;'Problematic Spaces, Problematic Races: Defining "Europeans" in Late Colonial India', Women's History Review 9 no 2, Special Issue "Borders and Frontiers in Women's History" (June 2000) pp.227-97; 'Parent-Child Separations and Colonial Careers: The Talbot Family Correspondence in the 1880s and 1890s', in Childhood in Question: Children, Parents, and the State, ed. Anthony Fletcher and Stephen Hussey (Manchester University Press, 1999) pp 115-32.

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Roger Burrows

BSc, MSc (Surrey) Professor, Department of Sociology
rjb7@york.ac.uk

Teaching & Research Interests

The sociology of health and illness; the sociology of housing and neighbourhoods; the sociology of digital technologies. Currently the co-editor of the international journal Housing Studies and a member of the editorial board of Information, Communication and Society.
Publications:

Featherstone, M. and Burrows, R. (eds) Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment London: Sage, pp. 280, 1995; Bunton, R., Nettleton S. and Burrows R. (eds) The Sociology of Health Promotion: Critical Analyses of Consumption, Lifestyle and Risk London: Routledge, 1995; Ford, J., Burrows, R. and Nettleton, S. Home Ownership in a Risk Society Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 202, 2001; Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. 'Mortgage Debt, Insecure Home Ownership and Health: an Exploratory Analysis', Sociology of Health and Illness, 20, 5, 735-757, 1998. Burrows, R. 'Residential Mobility and Residualisation in Social Housing in England', Journal of Social Policy, 28, 1, 27-52, 1999; Burrows, R., Nettleton, S., Pleace, N., Loader, B. and Muncer, S. 'Virtual Community Care?' Information, Communication and Society, 3, 1, 95-121, 2000; Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. 'When a Capital Investment Becomes an Emotional Loss: the Health Consequences of the Experience of Mortgage Possession', Housing Studies, 15, 3, 463-479, 2000; Nettleton, S. and Burrows, R. 'E-scaped Medicine? Information, Reflexivity and Health' Critical Social Policy, 23, 2, 165-185, 2003; Burrows, R. 'How the Other Half Lives? An Exploratory Analysis of Poverty and Home Ownership in Britain', Urban Studies, 40, 7, 1223-1242, 2003; Burrows, R. and Ellison, N. 'Sorting Places Out? Towards a Social Politics of Neighbourhood Informatisation' Information, Communication and Society, 7, 3, 2004; Nettleton, S., Burrows, R., O'Malley, L. and Watt, I 'Health eTypes? An Analysis of the Everyday Use of the Internet for Health', Information, Communication and Society, 7, 4, 531-553, 2004; Nettleton, S., Burrows, R. and O'Malley, L. 'The Mundane Realities of the Lay Use of the Internet for Health and their Consequences for Media Convergence' Sociology of Health and Illness, 27, 7, 2005; Burrows, R., Ellison, N. and Woods, B. Neighbourhoods on the Net: Internet-Based Neighbourhood Information Systems and their Consequences Bristol: The Policy Press, 2005; Burrows, R. and
Gane, N. 'Geodemographics, Software and Class' Sociology, (forthcoming).

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Joanna De Groot

BA, D Phil (Oxon) Lecturer, Department of History
jcdg1@york.ac.uk

Teaching & Research Interests

Research interests centre around the intersections of gender, culture and colonialism with other forms of difference and inequality and include, specifically, l9th and 2Oth-century women's history; the history of socialist and feminist ideas and movements and Iranian and Middle Eastern Indian history in the l9th and 20th centuries
Publications:

`"Sex" and "race": the construction of language and image in the 19th century' in S Mendus and J Rendall (eds) Sexuality and Subordination, 1989, Routledge; `Conceptions and misconceptions: the historical and cultural context of discussion on women and development ' in H Afshar (ed) Women, Development and Survival in the Third World (Longman, 1991); `The dialectics of gender: women, men and political discourses in Iran c.1890-1930'. Gender and History vol 5 no 2 (1993); with Mary Maynard (eds) Women's Studies in the 1990's; doing things differently? Macmillan (1993); `Gender, ideology and women's studies in Iran' in D Kandiyoti (ed) Gendering the Middle East I B Tauris (1995); 'Anti-colonial subjects? Post-colonial subjects?: Nationalisms, ethnocentrism and feminist scholarship' in M Maynard and J Purvis (eds) New frontiers in women's studies (1996); 'Beyond the ivory tower; women and the academy' Feminist Review 1996; Religion, culture and politics in Iran c.1870-1980 ; 'Cohabiting and conflicting cultures; women and nationalism in Iran' in N Chaudhuri and R Pierson (eds) Nation, Empire, Colony (1999).

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Allison Drew

MA, PhD (UCLA) Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics
ad15@york.ac.uk

Teaching & Research Interests

Social movements and development in Africa; women's movements in Africa and in comparative perspective; South African politics; Algerian politics
Publications

Discordant Comrades: Identities and Loyalties on the South African Left (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000); South Africa's Radical Tradition: A Documentary History, 2 vols (Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press; Mayibuye, Books, University of the Western Cape; and Buichu Books, 1996); Theory and Practice of the Agrarian Question in South African Socialism, 1928-60. Journal of Peasant Studies, 23, 3/4, January-March 1996; Guest Editorship and Introduction, South Asia Bulletin: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Special issue on Democracy in Post-Apartheid South Africa: the Contested Agenda, MV, 1, Spring 1995; Female Consciousness and Feminism in Africa. Theory and Society, 24, 1995

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Sue Grace

BA (Southampton) MA (London), Cert Ed (Durham) D Phil (York)
Academic Training Officer,
Professional and Organisational Development
sg10@york.ac.uk

Teaching and Research Interests

Teaching and learning in Higher Education; reflective accounts of life as academics in relation to the student experience; 19th-century criminal history; 19th-century social and women's history; 19th-century novel and 19th-century literature on crime; 20th-century feminist criminology.
Publications:

‘Key aspects of teaching and learning in the arts and humanities' in H Fry, S Ketteridge and S Marshall, A handbook for teaching and learning in higher education: Enhancing academic practice (1999 Kogan Page)

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Gabriele Griffin

BA (Leicester) MA (London) PhD (Leicester)
Professor and Chair, Board of Studies
Centre for Women's Studies
gg512@york.ac.uk
Department of Sociology

Teaching & Research Interests

Women's cultural production; contemporary women's theatre; Women's Studies as a discipline; feminist methodology diaspora and postcoloniality; lesbian writing. Co-editor of Feminist Theory; editorial board member Irish Feminist Studies. Coordinator of an EU-funded research project on 'Integrated Research Methods in the Social Sciences and Humanities (2004-7), and partner in the Marie Curie Early Researcher Training Network 'Gendergraduates'.
Publications

Research Methods for English Studies (ed.) Edinburgh UP (2005); Doing Women's Studies: Employment Opportunities, Personal Impacts and Social Consequences (ed.) Zed Books (2005); Employment, Equal Opportunities and Women's Studies: Women's Experiences in Seven European Countries (ed.) Ulrike Helmer Verlag (2004); Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain Cambridge UP (2003); Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing Routledge (2002); Thinking Differently: A Reader in European Women's Studies (with Rosi Braidotti) Zed Books (2002); HIV/AIDS and Representation: Visibility Blue/s Manchester UP (2000). Also numerous articles and book chapters including: 'What Mode Marriage? Women's Partner Choice in British Asian Cultural Representation' Women: A Cultural Review, (forthcoming spring 2007); Guest editor, special issue of NORA (Nordic Journal of Women's Studies, 2006); 'Gendered Cultures' (with M. Evans, J. Lorber & K. Davis) Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies Sage (2006) 'The Remains of the British Empire: The Plays of Winsome Pinnock', Mary Luckhurst, (ed.) A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama Blackwell (2006); 'Theatres of Difference: The Politics of "Redistribution" and "Recognition" in the Plays of Contemporary Black and Asian Playwrights', Feminist Review (mid-2006 issue) 'The Institutionalization of Women's Studies in Europe: Findings from an EU-funded Research Project on Women's Studies and Women's Employment', (with E Blimlinger, T. Gerstenauer) Women's/Gender Studies: Against All Odds Studienverlag (2005); Women and Theatre: Identity and (Auto)biography (with V. Gardner and M. Gale) Manchester UP (2004); 'Exile and the Body', with W. Everett and P. Wagstaff) Cultures of Exile: Images of Displacement Berghahn Books (2004); 'Constitutive Subjectivities: Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain', European Journal of Women's Studies 10/4 (2003; '(Other) Feminisms - European Women's Studies', Hecate 29/2 2003; Humboldt, Mickey Mouse and Current European Research Programmes - or Where are the Women in All This?', Kvinder kon forskning 12/2 2003; Women's Employment, Women's Studies and Equal Opportunities 1945-2001: Reports from nine European Countries (ed) University of Hull (2002); 'Was haben wir erreicht? Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem "Schicksal" von Women's Studies im Vereinigten Koenigreich', Feministische Studien 20/1 2002; 'Troubling Identities, or Why Is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?' Anglo-Saxonica 2, 16/17 2002; 'Women's Employment, Equal Opportunities and Women's Studies in Europe', (with Rosi Braidotti et al) The Making of European Women's Studies 4 University of Utrecht, 2002; 'Co-option or transformation? Women's and Gender Studies Worldwide' (with H. Flessner and L. Potts); Societies in Transition - Challenges to Women's and Gender Studies (with Leske and Budrich) 2002; 'Kooptacja czy transformacja? Women's i gender studies na swiecie', Katedra 3 2001.


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Leslie Hicks

BA, DPhil (York) Research Fellow, Social Work Research and Development Unit
slh8@york.ac.uk

Teaching & Research Interests

The care of children and young people looked after away from home; developing research skills in organisations; transition and change in women's lives; living standards; gender, leadership, resources and efficiency in children's homes.
Publications

Whitaker D, Archer, L and Hicks L (1998) Working in Children's Homes: Challenges and Complexities, Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd.; Archer L, Hicks L and Little M (1998) Caring for Children Away from Home: Messages from Research, Chichester John Wiley and Sons Ltd; Hicks L, Archer L and Whitaker D (1998) The prevailing cultures and staff dynamics in children's homes: implications for training. Social Work Education, 17 (3).; Hicks L and Archer L (1998) Developing research?mindedness in organisations. Issues in Social Work Education, 18 (2): 49-54.

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Carol-Ann Hooper

BA (Cambridge) Dip Soc Admin, PhD (LSE) Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Policy & Social Work
cah13@york.ac.uk

Teaching & Research Interests

Women and social policy; child abuse and child protection; violence against women; gender, crime and justice.
Publications

'Child sexual abuse and the regulations of women: variations on a theme' in C Smart (ed), Regulating Womanhood: Historical Essays on Marriage, Motherhood and Sexuality (Routledge, f.c. 1992); Mothers Surviving Child Sexual Abuse (Routledge, 1992)'Men's violence and relationship breakdown: can violence be dealt with as an exception to the rule?' in C Hallett (ed) Women and Social Policy (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1996); With J Kroprowska & R Milsom Research on Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Report on experience of Services (North Yorkshire Health Authority, 1999); (ed with U McCluskey) Psychodynamic Perspectives on Abuse: the cost of fear (Jessica Kingsley, 2000)

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Stevi Jackson

BA (Kent) B Phil (York) Professor and Director,
Centre for Women's Studies
sfj3@york.ac.uk
Dept of Sociology

Teaching & Research Interests

Feminist theory, theories of gender and sexuality, women's and family relationships, sociology of childhood
Publications

Childhood and Sexuality (Blackwell 1982); Women's Studies: A Reader (co-edited) Harvester Whestsheaf 1993); The Politics of Domestic Consumption: Critical Readings (co-edited with Shaun Moores) (Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf 1995) Christine Delphy ('Women of Ideas' Series, Sage 1996); Feminism and Sexuality (co-edited with Sue Scott) (Edinburgh University Press 1996); and Contemporary Feminist Theories (coedited with Jackie Jones) (Edinburgh University Press, 1998); Heterosexuality in Question (Sage 1999); Gender: A Sociological Reader co-editor with Sue Scott. (Routledge 2001) Also numerous articles in books and journals including: ' Towards a historical sociology of housework', Women's Studies International Forum, 1992; 'Even sociologists fall in love: an exploration in the sociology of emotion', Sociology, 1993; 'Liberty, equality and sexuality' (with Momin Rahman), Journal of Gender Studies 1996; 'Gut reactions to matters of the heart: rationality, irrationality and sexuality' (with Sue Scott), Sociological Review, 1997; 'Feminist sociology and sociological pfeminisms' Sociological Research Online (1999); 'Why a materialist feminism is (still) possible - and necessary.' Women's Studies Internationa Forum (2001); 'The personal is still political: heterosexuality, feminism and monogamy ', Feminism and Psychology, 14 (1) (2004 with Sue Scott); 'Sexual antinomies in late modernity', Sexualities, 7 (2) (2004 with Sue Scott); 'Sexuality, heterosexuality and gender hierarchy: getting our priorities straight', in Chrys Ingraham (ed.) Thinking Straight: New Work in Critical Heterosexuality Studies. (Routledge 2005)


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Mark Jenner

BA, DPhil (Oxon) Senior Lecturer in the History Department and in the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies
msrj1@york.ac.uk

Teaching and Research Interests

The social and cultural history of Britain c.1550-c.1780; social history of medicine; history of the body; gender, medicine, religious and political culture in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England. Currently on the Editorial Board of Urban History.
Publications:

'Body Image, Text in Early Modern Europe', Social History of Medicine (1999); 'Civilization and Deodorization? Smell in Early Modern English Culture' in P. Burke, B. Harrison & P. Slack (eds) Civil Histories: Essays Presented to Sir Keith Thomas (Oxford University Press, 2000); (With Bertrand Taithe) 'The Historiographical Body', in R. Cooter & J. V. Pickstone (eds) Medicine in the Twentieth Century (Harwood Academic, 2000); From Conduit Community to Commercial Network? Water in London 1500-1725', in P. Griffiths & M.S.R.Jenner (eds.) Londinopolis: Essays in the Social and Cultural History of Early Modern London (Manchester UP, 2000); Ed. with P Griffiths, 'Luxury, Circulation and Disorder: London Streets and Hackney Coaches c.1640-c.1740', in T. Hitchcock & H. Shore (eds.) The Streets of London 1660-1870 (Rivers Oram, forthcoming).

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Ann Kaloski-Naylor

BA (University College of Ripon & York St John);
DPhil (University of York)
Lecturer, Centre for Women's Studies
eakn1@york.ac.uk

Teaching & Research Interests

Contemporary fiction and culture, with special interests in death, digital texts & popular culture; feminist cultural politics & production; lesbian, bisexual & queer studies; feminist pedagogy & elearning. Co-ordinator of Wired Women's Studies.
Publications:

'Rewriting "the Paedophile": A feminist reading of The Woodsman' in Feminist Review 83 (2006) (with Carol-Ann Hooper), 'Communication Technologies' in The Women's Movement Today Leslie L. Heywood (ed) (2005), The Feminist Seventies (joint ed) (Raw Nerve, 2003), White?Women: Critical perspectives on Race and Gender (joint ed) (1999); 'Gone are the days'; changing perspectives in contemporary lesbian/feminist literary theory in Feminist Review 60 (1999);'Spicing up Girls' Lives' in Trouble and Strife 38, (1998/99); The Bisexual Imaginary: Representation, Identity and Desire, (joint ed) (1997); 'Bisexuals Making Out with Cyborgs' in Journal of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity, 2.1 (1997)

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Celia Kitzinger

BA (Oxford) PhD (Reading) Professor, Department of Sociology
cck1@york.ac.uk

Teaching & Research Interests

Lesbian and Feminist issues; development of feminist conversation analysis; a feminist approach to intersexuality
Publications:

The Social Construction of Lesbianism (Sage, 1987); Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism and Psychology (Onlywomen/New York University Press, 1993), Representing the Other (with Sue Wilkinson, Sage, 1995), Feminism and Discourse(with Sue Wilkinson, Sage, 1996) and Sexual Harassment (with Alison Thomas, Open University Press,1997); Lesbian and Gay Psychology Coyle, Adrian & Kitzinger, Celia (Eds.) Oxford: Blackwell, (2002). Doing feminist conversation analysis', in P. McIlvenny (ed.) Talking Gender and Sexuality Amsterdam: John Benjamins (2002); '"The thief of womanhood": Women's experiences of polycystic ovarian syndrome', Social Science and Medicine 54(3) 2002 (with J. Willmott); 'Denying equality: An analysis of arguments against lowering the age of consent for sex between men', Journal of Community and Applied Psychology 12, 2002 (with S. J. Ellis); 'Constructing Identities: A feminist conversation analytic approach to positioning in action' in R. Harré and A. Moghaddam (eds) The Self and Others: Positioning Individuals and Groups in Personal, Political and Cultural Contexts raeger/Greenwood, 2003 (with S. Wilkinson); 'The Re-branding of Marriage', Feminism & Psychology 14(1) 2004 (with S. Wilkinson).

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Mary Maynard

BA, B Phil (York) Professor, Department of Social Policy
mm45@york.ac.uk

Teaching & Research Interests:

Feminist theory and methodology, gender; race and ethnicity; age and ageing; women's studies.
Publications:

Researching Women's Lives from a Feminist Perspective (ed with J Purvis) (Taylor and Francis, 1994); The Dynamics of 'Race' and 'Gender' (ed with H Afshar) (Taylor and Francis, 1994); (Hetero)Sexual Politics (ed with J Purvis) (Taylor and Francis, 1995); New frontiers in Women's Studies: Knowledge, Identity and Nationalism (ed with J Purvis) (Taylor and Francis, 1996); and various articles on women's studies, feminist theory and methodology, and violence towards women; Feminists' knowledge and the knowledge of feminism: epistemology, theory, methodology and method, in T. May and M.. Williams (eds) Knowing the Social World, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1999; What do older women want?, in S Walby (ed) New Agendas for Women, London: MacMillan, 1999; Families and Households, in G. Browning, A Halcli and F Webster (eds) Understanding Contemporary Society: Theories of the Present, London: Sage;2000, Gender and ethnicity at the millennium: from margin to centre (with H Afshar), Ethnic and Racial Studies, 23,5,2000; Feminisms and postmodernism in social theory, in Robert G Burgess and Anne Murcott (eds) Developments in Sociology, Harlow, Essex: Prentice Hall, 2001; Studying age,'race' and gender, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 5 (1) 2002, 31-40; Gender, Ethnicity and Empowerment in Later Life (with Afshar, Franks and Wray), Quality in Aging, 3(1) 2002,13-19; Feminist Issue in Data Analysis, in M Hardy and A. Ryman (eds) Handbook of Data Analysis, London: Sage, 2004; Women's Studies in P Essed, A Kobayashi and D Goldberg (eds) A Companion to Gender Studies, Oxford: Blackwell, 2004

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Sue Mendus

BA (Wales), B Phil (Oxon) Professor, Department of Politics
slm6@york.ac.uk

Teaching & Research Interests

Moral and political philosophy, Contemporary Liberalism, Kant.
Publications

Feminisms and Emotion (Macmillan, 2000); Joint editor with John Horton of Aspects of Toleration (Methuen, l984); Joint editor with Ellen Kennedy of Women in Western Political Philosophy (Harvester, l986).Articles include `Harm, Offence and Censorship' in Aspects of Toleration (see above); `Kant: An Honest but Narrow-minded Bourgeois' in Women in Western Political Philosophy (see above); `Marital Faithfulness' in Philosophy; `Practical and Pathological Love' in Journal of Value Inquiry; `Losing that Faith; Feminism and Democracy' in joint editor with Jane Rendall Sexuality and Subordination. Inter-disciplinary Representations of Women in the Nineteenth Century (Methuen, l988); Toleration and the Limits of Liberalism (Macmillan, 1989)

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Linda Perriton

BA (Adelaide) MA, PhD (Lancaster) Senior Lecturer, Department of Management Studies
ljp8@york.ac.uk

Teaching & Research Interests

Human Resource Management, the gender history of management, history of training and development in organisations, equality issues, feminist perspectives on management development and pedagogy.
Publications

'The personal becomes polemical? The problematic second generation of facilitative practice'. Management Learning; (forthcoming) 'Forgotten feminists: The Federation of British Professional and Business Women, 1933-1969', Women's History Review; (forthcoming) ''The political economy of networked learning communities in higher education", Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 30 (1), (2005) 'Critical Management Education: From Pedagogy of Possibility to Pedagogy of Refusal?' Management Learning. Perriton, L and Reynolds, M (2005) 'A reflection of what exactly? A provocation regarding the use of 'critical' reflection', in Critical Management Education in M. Reynolds and R. Vince (eds) Organizing Reflection, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. (2004) ;Sleeping with the enemy? Exploiting the textual turn in management research. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Vol 4., No 1, 35-50 (2001); Incestuous Fields: Management Research, Emotion and Data Analysis, Sociological Research Online, Vol 5, Issue 3 (2001); Book review of: Changing Places? Flexibility, lifelong learning and a learning society - Richard Edwards, Management Learning, 31 (3) pp. 385-389 (2000); Verandah discourses: Critical management education in organisations. British Journal of Management, 11 (3) pp.227-239 (2000); Paper Dolls. The evocative and provocative gaze upon women in organisational management development, Gender and Education, 11 (3) pp. 295-307 (1999)

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Amanda Rees

BA, MA, PhD (Cantab) Lecturer, Sociology Department
ar24@york.ac.uk

Teaching & Research Interests

Sociology of science, social theory, feminism and science; post-colonialism; science and popular culture.

Publications

'Higamous, hogamous, woman monogamous', Feminist Theory, December 2000; 'Anthropomorphism, Anthropocentrism, and Anecdote: Primatologists on Primatology', Science, Technology & Human Values, Spring 2001; 'Practising Infanticide, Observing Narrative: Controversial Texts in a Field Science', Social Studies of Science August 2001.
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Harriet Badger

CWS Administrator

After many years working in the book trade and then a few years working in university undergraduate administration, Harriet came to the Centre for Women's Studies with the aim of helping as many of the students as possible through the application process, the years of study here, and beyond. Her favourite hobbies are reading, kniting and walking.
For enquiries about the Centre please contact by email; hb14@york.ac.uk
or telephone +44 (0)1904 433671



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