Event overview
Centre for Feminist Research, Opening Lecture with Professor Valerie Walkerdine, Cardiff University
In the period after the Second World War, huge changes to the social fabric of Britain began to take shape. There was a strong social class division, only beginning to be punctured by the small number of working class students allowed into higher education, which expanded in the 1960s before it exploded in the 1990s. In the post-war ferment, these newly educated young people began to demand an end to war and the life that their parents had led.
In this lecture I explore this moment as it sets the scene for developments and divisions that we see today. In understanding the implications of changing divisions between wealth and poverty, and illustrating my argument with examples from social research and cultural products, such as films and popular songs, I discuss the ways in which feminism can engage with class divisions through the recognition of how the divisions between different kinds of lives produce a mistrust and incomprehension on both sides. I suggest that addressing these issues within feminist research is politically imperative.
Followed by a reception, all welcome.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 6 Oct 2016 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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