Symposium: (XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 13-19, 2014))

RC32 Women in Society

Program Coordinator: Evangelia TASTSOGLOU (Saint Mary´s University, Canada)

Monday, July 14, 2014

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

542

Gender, Work and Family under Globalized Economy: Asia and Beyond
Session Organizers: Esther Ngan-Ling CHOW, Yu-Hsia LU and Shirley Hsiao-Li SUN
Chair: Shirley Hsiao-Li SUN

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

543

Thinking Gender on a World Scale: Prioritising Feminist Theory from the South
Session Organizers: Raewyn CONNELL and Laura CORRADI
Chair: Laura CORRADI

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

544

Gender in Sexual Minorities Research: Focus on Asian Scholarship
Session Organizers: Saori KAMANO and Day WONG
Chair: Diana KHOR

JS-9

Contested Citizenship: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality
Session Organizers: Patricia TOMIC and Lloyd L. WONG
Chair: Lloyd L. WONG

7:30 PM-8:50 PM

545

Gendering Brics: To What Extent and How Have Economic Growth and Economic Development Been Translated into Increased Gender Equality in Emerging World Economies?
Session Organizers: Bila SORJ and Solange SIMOES
Chair: Solange SIMOES

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

JS-16

Constructing Gender within Youth Activism
Session Organizers: Anna-Britt COE and Darcie VANDEGRIFT

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

JS-21

Women, Leisure and Gender Politics in Globalising Times
Session Organizers: Ishwar MODI and Cynthia JOSEPH

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

546

RC32 Business Meeting
Session Organizer: Evangelia TASTSOGLOU

JS-24

Women Negotiating Work and Family
Session Organizers: Maitreyee BARDHAN ROY and Anita DASH

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

547

RC32 Awards / Reception
Session Organizer: Evangelia TASTSOGLOU

JS-30

Intimate Labor in Asia
Session Organizers: Hae Yeon CHOO and Pei-chia LAN
Chair: Ruri ITO

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

548

Latin American Women's Agency and Resistance in a Globalized World. Acciones y Resistencia De Las Mujeres Latinoamericanas En Un Mundo Globalizado
Session Organizers: Alicia Itati PALERMO and Alicia DAMBRAUSKAS
Chair: Alicia Itati PALERMO

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

549

A Cross-National Comparative Approach to CEDAW As an Instrument to Effect Women's Rights and Gender Equality
Session Organizers: Solange SIMOES and Manisha DESAI
Chair: Patience ELABOR-IDEMUDIA

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

550

Looking at Inequalities through the Intersectional Prism: Potentialities and Challenges
Session Organizers: Bula BHADRA and Laura CORRADI
Chair: Bula BHADRA

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

JS-44

RC05RC32 Roundtable. Social Structure and Identities: National and/or Transnational Analyses of Racism or Ethnic Relations
Session Organizers: Vilna Bashi TREITLER and Ann DENIS

7:30 PM-8:50 PM

551

Women in the Academic Workplace: Challenging the Dynamics of Gender, Power and Knowledge
Session Organizers: Smita VERMA and Cynthia JOSEPH
Chair: Cecilia MENJÍVAR

Thursday, July 17, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

552

Gender, Violence, Human Rights, Peace: Activist / Research from Different Parts of the World
Session Organizers: Bandana PURKAYASTHA and Akosua ADOMAKO AMPOFO
Chair: Miho IWATA

JS-53

Gender, Violence, and Disaster: Research and Action
Session Organizers: Mieko YOSHIHAMA and Azumi TSUGE

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

553

Work, Women, Class and Care: Working Women in Contemporary European Cities
Session Organizers: Evelyn MAHON and Maria KONTOS
Chair: Consuelo CORRADI

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

554

Gender and Work in a Global Context
Session Organizers: Shobha Hamal GURUNG and Kumiko NEMOTO
Chair: Kumiko NEMOTO

JS-59

Feminist Movement and (Women's) Human Rights
Session Organizers: Angela MILES and Dai NOMIYA

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

555

Negotiating Gender and Generation in Transnational Cultures
Session Organizers: Marilyn PORTER and Peruvemba JAYA
Chair: Guida MAN

556

Women and the Economic Crisis: New Challenges and New Forms of Gender Inequalities
Session Organizers: Chrysanthi ZACHOU and Laura MARATOU-ALIPRANTI
Chair: Chrysanthi ZACHOU

Friday, July 18, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

557

Interrogating Gender and State in Local, National and Transnational Contexts
Session Organizers: Evangelia TASTSOGLOU and Margaret ABRAHAM
Chair: Cynthia JOSEPH

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

JS-69

Representation and Restoration of Women's Experiences: Navigating Between Colonial History and Postcolonial Present in the Asian Context
Session Organizers: Hee-Young YI, Gabriele ROSENTHAL and Bandana PURKAYASTHA
Chair: Victoria SEMENOVA

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

558

Social Transformation of the Middle East and the Shaping of Gender and Family Relationships
Session Organizers: Suaad Zayed AL-ORAIMI and Rima SABBAN
Chair: Laura MARATOU-ALIPRANTI

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

559

Author Meets their Critics
Session Organizer: Glenda BONIFACIO

Saturday, July 19, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

560

Global Cities and Women's Emotional Labor
Session Organizers: Iris E. HARVEY and La Pearl LOGAN WINFREY

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

561

Gender, Culture and Innovation in Knowledge-Intensive Industries
Session Organizers: Cynthia JOSEPH and Josephine BEOKU-BETTS
Chair: Rima SABBAN

12:30 PM-2:20 PM

562

Confronting De-Professionalization, Deskilling and Inequality: Immigrant Women's Alternative Strategies for Survival
Session Organizers: Patience ELABOR-IDEMUDIA and Guida MAN
Chair: Marlese DURR

563

RC32 Roundtable I. Women's Experiences in Labor Markets, Families and Households in Globalized Society
Session Organizers: Evangelia TASTSOGLOU, Josephine BEOKU-BETTS and Akosua ADOMAKO AMPOFO

2:30 PM-4:20 PM

564

RC32 Roundtable II. Women and Gender in an Unequal World
Session Organizers: Evangelia TASTSOGLOU, Akosua ADOMAKO AMPOFO and Josephine BEOKU-BETTS