Conference Sessions

This session brings together papers which explore the digital as a tool for feminist activism and consider how gendered violence and cybermisogyny are reproduced, enacted, and resisted through digital media.

This session brings together papers which explore the theoretical and political limitations and potentials of feminist thought and activism.

This session brings together papers which centralize women’s experiences and perspectives as they encounter, negotiate, and refuse intersecting normative dimensions of gender, race, mothering, and the feminine, and which work to position women as ‘other’, ‘deficient’ and ‘abnormal.’

This session brings together papers which explore diverse feminist perspectives on reproductive futures and reproductive labour, and the value of feminist methodological and grassroot interventions in the field of reproductive labour.

Gender intersects with other axes of identity to create particular experiences of working life. Women, girls, and marginalized groups earn less, have fewer opportunities for employment, education and training, and contend with poverty, health challenges, discriminatory norms, policies and practices that do not adequately consider the needs of diverse women or mothers. Their work is often sorted, segregated, and routinely devalued and devalorised. Acknowledging ongoing and persistent gender inequalities in workplaces and the labour market, this session invited papers that explore and consider the material conditions of gender and work under capitalist patriarchy. We also invited scholars to consider the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated, reified, or transformed intersecting inequalities.