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Building: Business School, Floor: 3rd Floor, Room: Room 3.06
Tuesday 09:00 - 10:30 BST (16/06/2026)
This panel discusses contesting gender norms, backlash, belonging, and bodily autonomy in contemporary societies.The first pair examines, through synthesising evidence from 85 studies, how gender role attitudes have evolved across time and contexts, what explains variation by gender and age, and if and why are we observing recent polarisation and reversals. The second paper investigates how devout Catholic parents in Italy navigate the tensions between Church teachings and their love for LGBTQ+ children. Continuing with the theme of LGBTQ+ families and belonging, the third paper analyses how adults living in LGBTQIA+ families in Finland define family, negotiate familial boundaries, and create everyday places of intimacy and care against the backdrop of recent LGBTQIA+ inclusive reforms. The fourth paper examines misyar (visiting) marriage among migrant and refugee communities in Istanbul, exploring how gendered, legal, and moral boundaries are negotiated within intersecting structures of migration, precarity, and power. The fifth paper examines how constitutional authority over the body is articulated across the UK’s four nations through documentary analysis of recent flashpoints in gender recognition, abortion, and assisted dying. Taken together, the papers explore how gender norms are contested, negotiated, and institutionalised across intimate life, religion, migration, public attitudes, and constitutional politics, revealing both persistent inequalities and evolving forms of resistance and belonging.
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Constitutions as Gendered Power Maps: A Documentary Analysis of Bodily Autonomy in the UK | View Paper Details |
| Mapping Belonging: LGBTQIA+ Family Practices and the Politics of Everyday Life in Finland | View Paper Details |
| Gender Role Attitudes in Europe and Beyond: Trends, Polarisation, and Possible Backlash | View Paper Details |
| Unveiling Kyriarchy: Misyar Marriage in Post-Migration Istanbul | View Paper Details |
| Torn Between Religious Doctrine and Parental Love: The Transformative Journeys of Devout Catholic Parents of LGBTQ+ Children | View Paper Details |