Body Projects Conference
An interdisciplinary one day conference: Body Modification and the Female Body. University of York. The aim of this conference is to facilitate discussion on the contemporary female body, its relation to body modification and its situation in the contemporary world.
Body modification is a controversial topic within feminism. The debate centres on issues of agency, pleasure, oppression, and false consciousness, and often pitches different understandings of women, and ‘second’ and ‘third’ waves of feminism, in opposition.
Our definition of body modification is broad, from shaved legs to buttock implants; from the honed ‘fit’ body to ‘fat-reducing’ surgery; from self-tanning to pro-ana; from piercings to gender reassignment, and much more.
This conference seeks to create a space where differences of
perspective, of cultural understanding and of theoretical viewpoint can
be tackled through debating issues of body modification.
09 March 2013