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Book Forum: Susanne Yuk Ping Choi on Intimacy as a Lens in Work and Migration

Earlier this year, GENDER.ED, CRFR and UoE Sociology hosted a book forum for Jingyu Mao’s new book Intimacy as a Lens in Work and Migration. In this blog post, Prof. Susanne Yuk Ping Choi engages with the book’s main arguments and related this to her own research of migration.

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Book Forum: Suvi Rautio on Intimacy as a Lens in Work and Migration

Earlier this year, GENDER.ED, CRFR and UoE Sociology hosted a book forum for Jingyu Mao’s new book Intimacy as a Lens in Work and Migration. In this blog post, Dr Suvi Rautio considers how the book relates to wider scholarship on ethnicity and labour in Chinese society.

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Book Forum: Guanyu Jason Ran on Intimacy as a Lens in Work and Migration

Earlier this year, GENDER.ED, CRFR and UoE Sociology hosted a book forum for Jingyu Mao’s new book Intimacy as a Lens in Work and Migration. In this blog post, Dr Guanyu Jason Ran discusses the book’s exploration of ethnicity.

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Introducing our interim Associate Director: Dr Zubin Mistry

During Semester One, GENDER.ED welcomes a new interim Associate Director, Dr Zubin Mistry, from the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Kaveri Qureshi welcomes Zubin to the team and introduces him in this brief exchange for the blog.

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Young Woman: Life as a Paradox

Rhodd Friswell draws on ‘doing gender’ theory to explore how their subversion of gender norms was influenced by her immediate familial and peer group environment. This piece received an honourable mention for the 2025 Yuan Changying Prize recognizing outstanding work by students in the pre-Honours course Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World.

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The Immovable Masculinity of the American Presidency

Anna Jefferies analyses gendered representations of candidates in the 2024 US Presidential Election. This piece was a winner of the 2025 Yuan Changying Prize recognizing outstanding work by students in the pre-Honours course Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World.

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Empowerment or Empire? Reassessing Germany’s Feminist Foreign Policy and its consequences on Iran’s civil society

Mara Bentzin analyses how Germany’s stance on economic sanctions on Iran undermines its Feminist Foreign Policy. This piece was a winner of the 2025 Yuan Changying Prize recognizing outstanding work by students in the pre-Honours course Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World.

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Associate Director Kaveri Qureshi and Lauren Hood, outgoing summer Intern, take stock of what GENDER.ED has been doing this summer, to get ourselves ready for the new academic year.
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GENDER.ED Newsletter - June 2025

As the academic year draws to a close, we have provided a round-up of our events, awards, new appointments and other activities that have taken place across Semester Two! Take […]
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PrideSoc: A Reflection

At the close of Pride Month, PrideSoc President Poppy Watson discusses the Society’s achievements this year, and the need for such an active, visible queer Society on campus.

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Introducing the new GENDER.ED Undergraduate Summer Intern

Lauren Hood introduces herself as the new GENDER.ED summer intern and discusses the exciting projects she will be working on.
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Reflections from the GENDER.ED Interns

To conclude their internships with GENDER.ED, PhD Intern, Maéva Thibeault, and Undergraduate Intern, Mouna Chatt sat down and reflected on what they have accomplished and learnt during their time with GENDER.ED.

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