Author: GFGRG Admin

Involving both men and women at all levels of development planning, implementation and evaluation will make a world of difference in the entire society by carrying out social change through development interventions. Such planning processes ensure women to be a social resource and treat them as partners in development. This argument presents a robust underpinning…

You are warmly invited to join us for a networking lunch at this year’s RGS-IBG Annual Conference. The lunch sponsored by the GFGRG will take place on Wednesday lunchtime in the Tea Room. Grab your packed lunch and join us in the tearoom for a lunchtime of networking. This year the GFGRG will be conducting…

The GFGRG is excited to be hosting the launch of Erin Sanders-McDonagh’s monograph Women and Sex Tourism Landscapes during the RGS-IBG’s Annual International Conference. Woman and Sex Tourism Landscapes focuses on the ways in which women interact with and explore sexual spaces in two specific touristic contexts – Amsterdam and Thailand. Ethnographic data collected in…

We are delighted to be sponsoring a number of different panels, networking events and book launches at this year’s RGS-IBG Annual International Conference. Below are the dates, times and places of each of our sessions.  Please click on the links for more details of each session: Wednesday 30th August Session 1 – 9-10.40 The Costs…

A reminder that this year the meal for the GFGRG will will be held on Wednesday 30th August at Thai Square, 19 Exhibition Road, South Kensington.  Please sign up via this link by August 14th including what you would like to eat and the total price. Members and potential members, all welcome. This is a…

The University of Bristol holds a unique collection of materials related to feminist and women’s liberation movements in the UK. The Feminist Archive South is based in the University’s Special Collections department where I have been working with a trustee of the archive, D-M Withers, to put together a teaching resource for lecturers who want to include materials…

Genesis of a New Human Being with Luce Irigaray 1 ½ day conference 9-10 June 2017 University of Bristol, BS8 1TU Philosopher Luce Irigaray’s new book To Be Born (Palgrave, 2017) offers a new way of conceiving what it means to be born. This conference explores birth, breath, the nature of origins, and the concept…

Friday 21st July 10.00am – 4.30pm Royal Geographical Society, London Sponsored by: GFGRG*PGF*GLTRG*SCGRG*PyGyRg*GLTRG   Need some help working out your methodology? Want to learn more about the RGS and it’s research groups? Or just want to meet some other PhDs and chat through your ideas? This workshop is designed to help students at the beginning…

One in a series of short pieces demonstrating the diverse research in gender and feminist geographies.   To comment or to write a post yourself, please contact our Web Coordinator, Louise Rondel at l.rondel@gold.ac.uk  We welcome posts by all members of the GFGRG. I recently had what my best friend now calls ‘my Baltimore rant’ on…

One in a series of short pieces demonstrating the diverse research in gender and feminist geographies.   To comment or to write a post yourself, please contact our Web Coordinator, Louise Rondel at l.rondel@gold.ac.uk  We welcome posts by all members of the GFGRG. I have recently finished twelve months of fieldwork in the NHS, examining care…