Equality is not a Utopia : Programma cientifico : science program
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Contributor
- McDevitt-Pugh, Lin
- Corporate
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 72 2008
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenstudies, vrouwenbewegingen, programma
- Description
- The congress theme refers to physical dislocations as having to do with migration, illegal trafficking of women for sexual exploitation and slavery, cheap labour, racism, xenophobia and all forms of physical violence against women and those who are 'in transit'. The theme also refers to imaginary and conceptual forms of dislocations and frontiers as having to do with survival mechanisms that women in extreme situations develop, many forms of conceptual dislocation and imaginary borders, 'other worlds', the Internet and scientific revolutions that we are experiencing in the 21st century, new venues and ties among people who are fighting for gender equality and social justice around the World, new time/space frames, new feminist theoretical proposals.