Symposium: (Third ISA Forum of Sociology (July 10-14, 2016))

RC32 Women in Society

Program Coordinators: Akosua ADOMAKO AMPOFO (University of Ghana, Ghana) and Josephine BEOKU-BETTS (Florida Atlantic University, USA)

Sunday, 10 July 2016

09:00-10:30

JS-1

Family-Friendly Policies and Gender (In)Equality in Paid and Unpaid Work
Session Organizers: Pia SCHOBER and Lena HIPP
Chair: Pia SCHOBER

10:45-12:15

JS-7

Intersectionality and Intergenerational Family Relationships
Session Organizers: Saori KAMANO and Diana KHOR

12:30-14:00

JS-14

Women's Activism in the Most Recent Cycle of Global Protests
Session Organizers: Josephine BEOKU-BETTS and Anna DOMARADZKA
Chair: Bandana PURKAYASTHA

14:15-15:45

JS-17

Racial, Ethnic and National Marginalization of Female Labor: Intersecting Inequalities at Work /La marginalisation raciale, ethnique et nationale de travailleures : des inégalités en intersection au travail
Session Organizers: Ann DENIS and Cynthia DEITCH
Chair: Ann DENIS

Monday, 11 July 2016

09:00-10:30

367

Roundtable 1: Gender Knowledge, Theory and Practice
Session Organizer: Marcia SEGAL

10:45-12:15

368

Author Meets Critic
Session Organizer: Evangelia TASTSOGLOU

369

Roundtable 2: Gender Issues Across the Globe
Session Organizers: Melanie HEATH and Anita DASH

14:15-15:45

370

Human Trafficking: The Labour and Sexual Exploitation of Women and Children
Session Organizers: Chioma Daisy ONYIGE, Laura CORRADI and Olakunle FOLAMI
Chair: Chioma Daisy ONYIGE

JS-32

Gender-Technology Interface: Implications for Social Transformation and Development
Session Organizer: Bula BHADRA

16:00-17:30

371

Twenty Years after Beijing: A Cross-National Approach to Feminist Movements and the Implementation of the Platform for Action
Session Organizers: Solange SIMOES, Marlise MATOS ALMEIDA and Manisha DESAI
Chair: Solange SIMOES

JS-36

Creating Safety for Youth in a Gendered World
Session Organizers: Darcie VANDEGRIFT and Anna-Britt COE

Tuesday, 12 July 2016

09:00-10:30

372

Global Sociology and Feminist Perspectives on Care, Care Work and the Struggle for a Careful World
Session Organizers: Brigitte AULENBACHER, Brigitte LIEBIG and Encarnacion GUTIERREZ RODRIGUEZ
Chair: Brigitte AULENBACHER

JS-38

Gender, Youth, and Migration: Modalities and Trajectories for Development
Session Organizers: Glenda BONIFACIO, Mark Anthony ABENIR and Lena NARE
Chair: Lena NARE

10:45-12:15

373

Precarity and Gender in the Era of Neoliberal Globalization
Session Organizers: Manisha DESAI and Marlese DURR
Chair: Akosua DARKWAH

JS-41

Gendered Human Rights, Human Dignity, and Intersecting Inequalities
Session Organizers: Bandana PURKAYASTHA, Anurekha CHARI WAGH and Shweta MAJUMDAR ADUR
Chair: Shweta MAJUMDAR ADUR

14:15-15:45

374

Knowledge Production: Feminist Perspectives in the 21st Century
Session Organizer: Akosua ADOMAKO AMPOFO
Chair: Josephine BEOKU-BETTS

16:00-17:30

375

RC32 Business Meeting

Wednesday, 13 July 2016

09:00-10:30

376

Gender, Law, and the Courts: Local and Global Struggles Against Violence
Session Organizers: Mangala SUBRAMANANIAN, Preethi KRISHNAN and Agatha EGUAVOEN
Chair: Laura CORRADI

JS-50

Re-Imagining Gendered & Raced Representations in the Public Sphere
Session Organizers: Roberta VILLALON and Natalie BYFIELD

10:45-12:15

377

Intersectionalities of Power in Research: Strategies for Action and Justice
Session Organizers: Roberta VILLALON and Alessandra DECATALDO
Chair: Manisha DESAI

JS-51

Women's Migrant Worker : Have They Protected?
Session Organizer: Anis FARIDA

14:15-15:45

378

Gender, Culture and Technologies in the Knowledge Economy
Session Organizers: Cynthia JOSEPH and Linda MUZZIN
Chair: Mary OSIRIM

16:00-17:30

JS-59

Migrant Women's Biographies within the Economic Crisis: Transnationalism As a Coping Strategy Reconsidered
Session Organizers: Ursula APITZSCH and Francesca Alice VIANELLO
Chair: Ursula APITZSCH

Thursday, 14 July 2016

09:00-10:30

379

Muslim Women's Struggles for a Better World through Promoting Gender Equality
Session Organizers: Masoumeh VELAYATI and Nilay CABUK KAYA
Chair: Nilay CABUK KAYA

10:45-12:15

380

Fights, Strategies and Projects for Women in Latin America and the Caribbean for a Fairer and More Equitable World.
Session Organizers: Alicia Itati PALERMO and Gay YOUNG
Chair: Alicia Itati PALERMO

14:15-15:45

381

Empowering Women for a Better World. Activism and Leadership in the Global Movements to Fight Violence Against Women
Session Organizers: Consuelo CORRADI and Glenda BONIFACIO
Chair: Consuelo CORRADI

16:00-17:30

382

The Cities We Want: Using Visionary Methodologies to Create Feminist Alternatives to Urban Planning
Session Organizers: Anna-Britt COE and Chris HUDSON
Chair: Anna-Britt COE