Body Projects: Body Modification and the Female Body

9^th March 2013, University of York

An interdisciplinary one day conference

Keynote Speaker: Professor Ruth Holliday, University of Leeds

‘The PIP Scandal: ‘Fake’ Breasts and the Politics of Corporeal Value’

Registration is now open for ‘Body Projects: Body Modification and the Female Body’. This conference will cover a wide range of body modification practices including: plastic surgery; tattooing, bodybuilding, clothing/fashion and dieting. Our speakers will consider body modification in relation to eating disorders, pregnancy, weight loss and gain, exercise, commercialism and technology.

We are very lucky to have speakers approaching body modification from different disciplines and perspectives: art, law, literature, history, women’s/gender studies, queer studies, critical theory, media studies, psychology and health studies. The conference will address debates around agency, control, third wave feminism, post-feminism, neo-liberalism, self-regulation and identity. Please join us for what promises to be an exciting and stimulating day.

A full programme and details of how to register can be found at: http://bodyprojects.wordpress.com/

Please join us at the Centre for Women’s Studies, University of York for an extra (and free) Body Projects panel. Two of our postgraduate speakers will give papers, followed by discussion and cake! This will offer a preview of the conference themes or it can be an alternative for those unable to attend on Saturday 9^th March.