Feminist Transitions Conference June 18, 2009

The 22nd Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Conference is hosted by Edge Hill University at the Bluecoat, Liverpool on 19th-21st June 2009.

Recent years have seen an unprecedented broadening of feminist issues and practices. Feminist perspectives have moved across and beyond a number of established boundaries - including geographical, national, economic, ethnic, political, theoretical, cultural, popular, sexual and gender - to expand the scope of the movement. Now more than ever, there is a need for an inclusive feminism that sees diversity as strength and engages productively with the complexities and contradictions of the twenty-first century.

The aim of this conference is:

• To reflect on a wide range of social, cultural, theoretical and global transitions that have affected and/or modified feminism's identity, representation, activism and politics;


• To debate the state of twenty-first-century feminisms.

For more details, including proposals for papers and travel and accommodation information, visit www.edgehill.ac.uk/feministtransitions.