SSP Research Seminar Series: Symposium of Femonationalism

We are delighted to welcome, Sara R. Farris (Goldsmiths, University of London) to present her work at our School Research Seminar.

Event abstract

In her presentation, Sara Farris will discuss some of the themes laid out in her new book, In the Name of Women's Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke, 2017). Farris' book explores the ways in which feminist ideas are often exploited by anti-Islam and xenophobic campaigns. She coins the term ‘femonationalism’ to describe the practices and claims that, by characterising Muslim men as oppressors and by emphasising the need to rescue Muslim women, these anti-Islam groups use gender equality to justify their prejudice.

Chair: Karen Throsby (University of Leeds)

Speaker biography

Sara R. Farris is a Senior Lecturer in the sociology department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work to date has focused on the orientalist underpinnings of sociological theory, and on theories of gender, race and social reproduction, particularly as they apply to the analysis of migrant women in Western Europe. Through these theoretical lenses and interests, Sara has published widely on theories of racism and nationalism; the specific gendered forms of Orientalist/Westocentric representations of women in the Western public discourse; the mobilisation of women’s rights by right-wing nationalist parties within xenophobic campaigns and the multiple forms of exploitation and domination that characterise female migrant labour in the care and domestic sector in particular; the commodification of care and social reproduction and its links to processes of racialisation. She is the author of Max Weber’s Theory of Personality. Individuation, Politics and Orientalism in the Sociology of Religion (Brill, 2013) and In the Name of Women’s Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke 2017).

Joining details

The seminar will be held on Zoom, please access the Zoom meeting using the link, meeting ID and passcode below.

https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/j/85057895667?pwd=S3Fva0RIWk5hVHNiQy9tRnlqYklvQT09

Meeting ID: 850 5789 5667
Passcode: rLwu%0