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Gender Studies Conference 2015

2015 Gender Studies Conference Program

Gender - Inside and Outside, April 2, 2015

Gender involves social and cultural understandings of sexual difference and the practices and behaviors that support or challenge those understandings. We welcome proposals from Houston area undergraduate and graduate students in all disciplines for individual papers, panels, poster presentations, visual art presentations, creative writing, or performance art. 

  • Gender and the body
  • External/internal gender constructions
  • Gender construction and the workplace
  • Gender and/in domestic space
  • Police brutality and gender (in & out of prison
  • Black women exercising power
  • Depictions of post-industrial gender relations in film Psychology of gender
  • Similarities in the female and male brain
  • Latina/Chicana representations
  • The gender gap in STEM fields
  • Gender and/in public space
  • Third Wave feminism
  • In and out of the closet
  • Sexual orientation and the law
  • Women in the Diaspora
  • Femininity/Masculinity and folk heroes
  • Gender, sex, and marriage equality