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The body, sexuality and gender continue to be subjects of much debate in contemporary culture and within academia. The study of the self is a central concern across disciplines, and as with the Talking Bodies conference, we hope this book demonstrates the value in cross- and inter-disciplinary spaces. In 2019 and early 2020 as the editors and contributors prepared this manuscript we could not have imagined the circumstances in which we would be finalising the text. The coronavirus crisis worsened from a severe, but seemingly distant to many, new disease into a global pandemic which saw swathes of the global population placed into varying degrees of isolation and self-reflection. As we write from the UK and Netherlands in early 2021 this book is more than an abstract academic project. It represents the vitality and inspiration that comes from sharing knowledge with colleagues within our respective disciplines, and without them. Even before our social and professional lives became mediated through video calls, cross-disciplinary and international research offered vital windows into moments of human transformation, movement and expression. This collection of activist-academic essays scrutinises varied questions relating to the way we understand and (re)present ourselves and others, and at its core represents hope and determination that a different world is possible.
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Michelle D. Ravenscroft is a graduate of the University of Chester, where she studied English literature, education and nineteenth-century literature and culture. Michelle is an educational consultant working on projects relating to personal and social education and development in the primary and secondary education sectors. She also delivers enrichment sessions in a North Wales primary school. Michelle is currently undertaking doctoral study at Manchester Metropolitan University, researching nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century literature in relation to the Portico Library’s collection and archives. Bee Hughes is an academic, curator and artist. Their recent interdisciplinary work explores non-binary and trans approaches to contemporary art and visual cultures, menstrual art history, materiality, and performativity. Their doctorate ‘Performing Periods: Challenging Menstrual Normativity through Art Practice’ (2020) explored the ways art can disrupt normative understandings of menstruation and gender. In 2020 Bee began a collaborative project as Artist in Residence at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Institute for Gender Studies, and School of Art History at the University of St Andrews. Bee is a Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communication at Liverpool John Moores University. Charlotte Dann is a Lecturer in Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Northampton. Her teaching centres around qualitative, critical, and feminist work – exploring bodies, discourses, and intersectional issues across the lifespan. She received her PhD from the University of Northampton in 2018, exploring the regulation, conformity, and resistance of tattooed women in the UK. She is currently working on two main projects – first, a multi-university project exploring aspects of parenting practices online and second, a funded project focusing on issues of diversity in higher education. She has published work on meaning-making in tattooed bodies, as well as tattooed mothers, with a monograph due to be published in October 2021. She is an editorial assistant for Psychology of Women & Equalities Review and a committee member for the Psychology of Women & Equalities Section. Paul G. Nixon is a Principal Lecturer in Political Science at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. He has contributed chapters to many edited collections and has co-edited ten previous collections including Reshaping International Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (with V. P. Dennen & R. Rawal, 2021) Sex in the Digital Age (with I. K. Dusterhoft, 2018), Digital Media Use Across the Lifecourse (with Rajash Rawal & Andreas Funk, 2016) and Gender and Sexuality in the Contemporary Media Landscape, a special edition of the Information Communication and Society journal (edited with Cosimo Marco Scarcelli & Tonny Krijnen), which was published online in 2021.
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