Top 50 Women’s Studies Blogs!

Have a look at some interesting blogs around Women’s Studies compiled by onlinedegreeprogrammes.org.

See what other feminists are thinking and/or working on and more importantly see if yours is there!

http://onlinedegreeprograms.org/blog/2009/50-eye-opening-womens-studies-blogs/

NEW EMAIL ADDRESS!

In order to make it easier for members to contact the organisation we have moved our main email address to the fwsa.org.uk domain. You can now contact me/other exec members on Administrator@fwsa.org.uk.

We hope in the future to add more, specific addresses to this domain, but currently this is the main point of contact for enquiries (incl. information to be posted on this website).

Katie

FWSA Administrator

Are you planning a conference or event?

If so, please let us know! 

The FWSA is always interested to see what its members are working on, and by reviewing member events in our newsletter we hope to promote the exciting work and research that is currently going on in feminism and women’s studies.  We also hope that in exchange for advertising your event on our blog, you might return the favour by advertising the work of the organisation in your conference packs or at your registration desk. 

If you would like to receive FWSA publicity material for your conference packs, or would like more information about advertising your event on our blog, please contact Lucy Gallagher (l.r.gallagher@ncl.ac.uk)

For more information on conferences and events go to our conference page by clicking here.  

 

FWSA Book Prize 2010

The Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK & Ireland) is delighted to announce the FWSA Book Prize 2010, a competition for books published in the fields of feminist, women’s and gender studies in 2009. The FWSA Book Prize is intended to recognise scholarship which is innovative, interdisciplinary and grounded in feminist theory and practice. We welcome single or jointly authored contributions but edited collections are not eligible. All entries will be judged by an external interdisciplinary panel of feminist, women’s and gender studies scholars. The winner and short-listed entries will be announced in June 2010 and will be featured in the FWSA newsletter. The winner will be awarded a prize of £500. We would be grateful if you could circulate this information to all interested authors, alternatively if you’ve read something recently that has inspired you, then individuals can nominate someone else. Publishers can nominate books directly. All submissions must be accompanied by a completed nomination form, which is available on the FWSA website. 3 copies of the book must be submitted with the completed nomination form. For full details, including how to enter, please visit our website: www.fwsa.org.uk. This is the second year of the competition and we want to build on the enthusiasm and success of last year, where the number of submissions and quality of entries was inspiring. We are confident that the prize will go from strength to strength, promoting and providing recognition for feminist scholarship in the UK.

Download the poster for the competition here and spread the word!

FWSA Book Prize Winners!

The Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK & Ireland) is delighted to announce the winners of the inaugural FWSA Book Prize 2009. The prize is intended to recognise scholarship which is innovative, interdisciplinary and grounded in feminist theory and practice. The competition has generated significant interest and excitement and the winning entries demonstrate the breadth and high calibre of feminist scholarship that exists in the UK.

 

The 2009 winning authors were presented with their certificates and prizes by Professor Diane Negra (University College Dublin) at the FWSA conference in June.

 

Joint winners

Lisa Baraitser (2008) Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption. Routledge 

Margaretta Jolly (2008) In Love + Struggle. Letters in Contemporary Feminism. Columbia University Press

 

Professor Negra presents Margaretta Jolly with her prize 

 (L-R) Jacqui Gabb (FWSA Book Prize Co-Ordinator), Margaretta Jolly & Carolyn Pedwell (FWSA Treasurer) 

Highly commended

Caroline Bainbridge (2008) A Feminine Cinematics: Luce Irigaray, Women and Film. Palgrave MacMillan

 To see the judges comments click here.

 

New look FWSA Executive

Following Sunday’s AGM at the FWSA Conference there are a number of new additions to the FWSA Executive Committee, see below:

Alison Phipps (Sussex) – Chair
Stephanie Genz (Edge Hill) – Treasurer
Amy Hinterberger (LSE) – Newsletter
Jacqui Gabb (Open) – Book Prize
Lucy Gallagher (Newcastle) – Publicity and Membership
Melanie Waters (Northumbria) – Postgraduate Seminars
Nadine Muller (Hull) – Publicity and Membership
Srila Roy (Nottingham) – Student Essay Competition
Yvette Taylor (Newcastle) – Newsletter

 

The committee would like to thank former chair Stacy Gillis and former Treasurer Carolyn Pedwell for their tireless work for the Association!

We would also like to thank Joanne Kalogeras and Celia Roberts , who also recently stepped down from the committee, for all of their hard work.

Finally a really huge thank you to  Ben Brabon and Stephanie Genz for organising such a fantastic event in Liverpool!

 

Standby for photos from the event and from the presentation ceremony for the prestigious FWSA Book Prize.

FWSA Conference this weekend!

The FWSA Conference will be held this weekend at the Bluecoat Centre in Liverpool.

The winner of the prestigious FWSA Book Prize will be presented with their prize at the conference.

The Association’s Annual General Meeting also be held at the conference, on Sunday morning. Members can view the agenda here.

If you can’t make it the minutes of the meeting will be available on this website next week.

Please click here for the full programme.

It promises to be an exciting weekend. We  look forward to seeing some of  you there!

FWSA Book Prize 2009

Judging of the FWSA 2009 book prize is now complete. The prize attracted a large number of submissions and the quality of the field was extremely strong. In the end it was decided to share the honours, with two authors being awarded joint winner and a close contender being awarded highly commended. The results of the competition will be announced at a wine reception (5-7pm) by Professor Judith Halberstam at the FWSA conference Feminist Transitions, on Friday 19th June. The conference will take place at The Bluecoat in Liverpool, see conference website for full details http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/english/FWSA/index.htm

We hope that many of you will be able to join us there for a glass of wine to celebrate the occasion and to meet the authors!

Enter this year’s FWSA Student Essay Competition…

This year’s competition is now open.

The judges are looking for work which is innovative, interdisciplinary and grounded in feminist theory and practice. The prize is £200 and a year’s membership and the top six entries of each year are published in the Journal of International Women’s Studies.  Students at any stage of their studies at a British or Irish university are encouraged to submit previously unpublished work.

The deadline for the 2009 competition is 1 November 2009.

For more information on submission requirements see our Prizes pages.

Student Essay Prize Winners 2009

The FWSA is pleased to announce the winner of this year’s student essay competition.

The overall winner was Catherine Martin (Exeter), with her essay on  ’Speech, Silence and Female Adolescence in Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop‘.

And the runners-up:
 
Sarah Blake (LSE), ‘The War on Terror as a State of Exception: A
Challenge for Transnational Gender Theory’

Carey Leigh Hogg (LSE), ‘Women’s Political Representation in
Post-Conflict Rwanda: A Politics of Inclusion or Exclusion?’

Alice Szczepanikova (Warwick), ‘The Everyday Practice of
Depoliticization: Relations of Power and Gendered Performances in
Non-Governmental Assistance to Refugees’

Naomi Jayne Garner (Oxford), ‘Seeing Through a Glass Darkly:
Wollstonecraft and the Confinements of Eighteenth-Century Femininity’

Clare Makepeace (Birkbeck), ‘To what extent was the relationship between
feminism and eugenics a marriage of convenience in the interwar years?’

Congratulations to all of our winners who will all see their essays published in the Journal of International Women’s Studies next year!

 

To see this year’s entries or to enter next year’s competition click here.