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This is the official channel of CWS at York and is now inactive. For up to date social media posts, please check out our Instagram page uoy_cws.
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UoY Centre for Women's Studies @UoYCWS
TODAY!! We are so looking forward to Professor Alison Phipps' visit! Come join us at 4.30pm in the Lakehouse, Ron Cooke Hub.
UoY Centre for Women's Studies @UoYCWS Nov 22, 2023
We are delighted to announce that the final Women's Studies Now! seminar of the semester (more to come next year!) will be a talk from Professor Alison Phipps on Wednesday 29th November at 4.30pm.

Details below - please note we're in the Ron Cooke Hub (Lakehouse) on Campus East!
‘Sexual Violence as a Strategy of Enclosure: an Anti-origin Story’ with Dr Rachel Alsop and Professor Alison Phipps Wednesday November 29 | 4.30pm - 6.30pm | Ron Cooke, Lakehouse. This paper explores a range of stories that aim to account for the origins of gender domination and sexual violence. I ask: what do these different stories offer our understanding of sexual violence? Both the sociobiological and sociocultural stories ultimately present accounts of oppression without exploitation: in other words, they tell us how sexual violence occurs but not why, explaining gender domination in terms of itself and collapsing into a biological essentialism which is arguably colonial in provenance. Using the socioeconomic and sociopolitical origin stories, however, sexual violence can be theorised as a strategy of enclosure, which treats women’s bodies as territory to be used for economic ends, or to be conquered as part of political projects.
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UoY Centre for Women's Studies @UoYCWS
THIS IS TOMORROW!! Professor Alison Phipps will share her research around stories that aim to account for the origins of gender domination and sexual violence.

JOIN US!! 4.30pm in the Lakehouse, Ron Cooke Hub, University of York.
UoY Centre for Women's Studies @UoYCWS Nov 22, 2023
We are delighted to announce that the final Women's Studies Now! seminar of the semester (more to come next year!) will be a talk from Professor Alison Phipps on Wednesday 29th November at 4.30pm.

Details below - please note we're in the Ron Cooke Hub (Lakehouse) on Campus East!
‘Sexual Violence as a Strategy of Enclosure: an Anti-origin Story’ with Dr Rachel Alsop and Professor Alison Phipps Wednesday November 29 | 4.30pm - 6.30pm | Ron Cooke, Lakehouse. This paper explores a range of stories that aim to account for the origins of gender domination and sexual violence. I ask: what do these different stories offer our understanding of sexual violence? Both the sociobiological and sociocultural stories ultimately present accounts of oppression without exploitation: in other words, they tell us how sexual violence occurs but not why, explaining gender domination in terms of itself and collapsing into a biological essentialism which is arguably colonial in provenance. Using the socioeconomic and sociopolitical origin stories, however, sexual violence can be theorised as a strategy of enclosure, which treats women’s bodies as territory to be used for economic ends, or to be conquered as part of political projects.
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