Session at Third ISA Forum of Sociology „Resisting Oppression, Fighting Violence and Transforming the Law and Politics: Women’s Action Across the World“ (Web)
Venue: University of Vienna
Time: 10.-14.07.2016
Proposals due: 30. September 2015

• Session-Organizers: Barbara G. BELLO, University of Milano, Italy and Alexandrine GUYARD-NEDELEC, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Taking as a starting point the bottom-up instances of participation and resistance by women’s movements around the world, the session of the Working Group “Gender, Law and Society” of the RCSL aims at discussing how the laws and policies can be transformed, nurtured, deconstructed or improved in a way that they are responsive to women at the local level. In line with the main topic of the Congress, this session welcomes papers strengthening the connections between international, European or local law and politics and their gender implications, inquiring into the role of women as social actors and their agency in the struggles in different scenarios (e.g. Arab Springs, postcolonial settings/countries, racially/ethnically segregated areas within metropolis, etc.), be they part of emancipatory movements, of cultural/religious/racial/ethnic/sexual or other minorities or acting as individuals. Read more and Source … (Web)