The Role of Language in Shaping Gender Justice and Sexual Rights Movements

Friday, August 3, 2012: 10:45 AM-12:15 PM

OB 32 (Faculty of Economics)

RC32 Women in Society

RC25 Language and Society (host committee)

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Session Organizers:

Melanie HEATH, McMaster University, Canada and Evangelia TASTSOGLOU, Saint Mary´s University, Canada

Chair:

Melanie HEATH, McMaster University, Canada

510.1

Whose language? Whose experiences? Examining the language of organizing among LGBT (Indian subcontinent-origin) groups in the US and India (Oral Presentation)
Bandana PURKAYASTHA, University of Connecticut, USA; Shweta Majumdar ADUR, University of Connecticut, USA

510.2

510.3

Communicative acts which promote new masculinities. Overcoming hegemonic masculinity in the work-place (Oral Presentation)
Marta SOLER, University of Barcelona, Spain; Òscar PRIETO-FLORES, University of Girona, Spain

510.4

La acción en el espacio público: Mujer y trabajo (Oral Presentation)
Maria del Carmen TREVINO, UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGOGICA NACIONAL, Mexico

510.5

Fronteras discursivas: Travestismo, transexualidad y transgeneridad en los discursos del estado Argentino (Oral Presentation)
Anahí FARJI NEER, CONICET/ UBA, Argentina

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