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This blog aims to focus on gender and employment, equal pay, gender and organisations, transgender politics, theories about sex and gender, experiences of doing gender in daily life, performing and writing gender. The Blog is linked to the MA module 'Gender at Work' and many of the posts are written by students.

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Month: March 2022

March 31, 2022

‘’Say good-bye to gender stereotype’’: how is gender portrayed  in the lyrics of pop music?

by Stephanie Pang Music is seen as an expressive tool where individuals can express their emotions. We often use music for many different purposes e.g. […]

Culture, Feminism, masculinity, music by Barbara Jane Elliott
March 31, 2022

Post-Lockdown Femininity Fears: The Return of Revenge Dressing!

by Ellie Gibb Ditch the joggers, switch off the X-BOX, put down the pint and slap on some lippy. Is that how you do it? […]

covid19, Culture, fashion by Barbara Jane Elliott
March 31, 2022

Gender, the guitar and why people won’t stop calling Wet-Leg ‘Industry Plants’

by Johnny Hurst Following CPB-London’s recent ‘imagine a’ campaign:[1] picture a guitarist. Are they a man? They shouldn’t be. Not only should you not assume […]

Culture, Feminism, masculinity, music by Barbara Jane Elliott
March 31, 2022

Does university rugby culture reinforce hegemonic masculinity?

by Olivia Heathfield “All the freshers have to down pints… eat cat food, and lots of other random things” (Dempster, 2009:490). Hegemonic masculinity is a […]

Culture, masculinity, Sport by Barbara Jane Elliott
March 30, 2022

Incel culture: How a neo-masculinity challenges traditional notions of hegemonic masculinity

by Sophie Houghton TW – Sexual Abuse, Threats of Violence, Mass Violence Source: New America “Misogynist incel men have advocated for the legalization of violent […]

masculinity, Social Media by Barbara Jane Elliott
March 30, 2022

Will a woman’s work ever be done?  Not when it involves doing housework and doing gender

by Paula Lovelock Finding myself living in a London house-share with four guys in the mid-1990s, it only took a few weeks before I went […]

covid19, domestic labour, Feminism by Barbara Jane Elliott
March 30, 2022

‘I’m not like other girls’

by Paige Parsons …Hmm, not like other girls, or a case of internalised misogyny? Since I was little, I have heard this comment voiced from […]

Anthropology, Culture, Feminism, Intersectionality by Barbara Jane Elliott
March 30, 2022

#MeToo Social Movement and the Improvement of Women’s Awareness about Gender Equality

by Wenjie Huang Can social media drive a new wave of feminism? I believe that social media has made the new wave of feminism becomes […]

Feminism, Social Media by Barbara Jane Elliott

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