The FWSA are delighted to announce two confirmed Keynote speakers for
Rethinking Sisterhood
The Affective Politics of Women’s Relationships
Rethinking Sisterhood
The Affective Politics of Women’s Relationships
Dr Margaretta Jolly, Reader in Cultural Studies, Media and Film
Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies
Dr Margaretta Jolly is Reader in Cultural Studies in the School of Media, Film and Music at The University of Sussex. She directs the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research at Sussex and was Principal Investigator to ‘Sisterhood and After: The Women’s Liberation Oral History Project’, available at bl.uk/sisterhood. She is author of In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism (winner, Feminist and Women’s Studies Association UK 2008) and editor of The Encyclopedia of Life Writing (2001, Outstanding Reference Book Award, American Libraries Association).
Professor Lynne Segal, Anniversary Professor of Psychology & Gender Studies
Birkbeck University
LYNNE SEGAL was involved in diverse forms of activism in women’s groups and Left politics throughout the 1970s. The following decade she began publishing. Her books include: Beyond the Fragments (with Sheila Rowbotham & Hilary Wainwright); Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism; Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men; Straight Sex: The Politics of Pleasure; Why Feminism? Gender, Psychology, Politics, Making Trouble: Life and Politics; Out of Time: The Pleasures & Perils of Ageing. Today she is Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies in the department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London.