Events and Seminars
| Event | : | OPUS Scientific Meeting |
|---|---|---|
| Venue | : | Online |
| Date | : | 02/04/2025 |
| Duration | : | 6:30 - 8pm BST / 1:30 - 3pm EDT |
| Extra Info | : | Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination: Undermining Entrenched Misogynies Through Recognition and Everyday Resistance With Sarah Gilmore, Nancy Harding and Jackie Ford Chaired by Carlos Remotti-Breton This paper marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of the UK’s Sex Discrimination Act (1975). The UK offers an almost unique case study of how such laws are, or are not, translated into practice. The success of the Act is mixed: there has been progress but much more needs to be done. There are many studies exploring what needs to be done: in this study we decided to find out what had contributed to the successes that have been achieved, to find out if there are lessons we can build on. We use a feminist methodology of researching differently within an archive of memories, and the under-utilized work of feminist psychoanalytical theorist Jessica Benjamin. We identify that women engaged in micro-revolutions involving everyday strategies of resistance have slowly, slowly brought about some major changes because the accumulation of tiny changes, over time, builds up to larger differences. The paper, firstly, contributes a theory of women’s agency as quiet revolutionaries, secondly it pushes forward feminist theories of recognition, and finally it advances methods of researching differently. |
| Organised By | : | OPUS |
| Web Link | : | https://www.tickettailor.com/events/opusanorganisationpromotingunderstandingofsociety/1614413?mc_cid=a26ab3cb8b |