Engendering Change
6 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Niamh Maguire and John O'Brien from Waterford Institute of Technology, talk with experts about gender issues across social, political and cultural dimensions.
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Episodes
The Northern/Irish Feminist Legal Judgments Project with Mairead Enright
January 14, 2021 04:00 - 48 minutes - 89.5 MBIn this episode Niamh Maguire talks with Mairead Enright, Reader in Feminist Legal Studies at Birmingham Law School, about feminist legal theory and the Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments Project. They discuss the nature of feminist legal theory and the kinds of insights and perspectives it brings to the development and analysis of the law. Mairead, as Co-Director of the Northern/Irish Feminists Judgements Projects, and Co-Editor of the book of the same name, explains what feminist judgments ...
Male Sex Work in the Digital Age w/ Paul Ryan
December 17, 2020 10:41 - 40 minutes - 74.2 MBIn our second episode, John O’Brien talks with Paul Ryan, Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology in Maynooth University. We discuss his latest book: Male Sex Work in the Digital Age: Curated Lives. The discussion centres on the research of Professor Ryan, which emphasises listening to the voices of sex workers so that their experiences and needs can be heard. The talk covers background issues of migration, precarious and difficult employment for migrant workers in th...
Christmas Recommendations
December 16, 2020 23:17 - 42 minutes - 77.5 MBHo ho ho! Five of the regular podcast hosts from WIT got together to record a joint episode recommending some books, TV programmes, films, podcasts and tech that you (or a loved one) might enjoy over the Christmas period. Features Jenny O’Connor from The Nerve, Bruce Wardrop from Win Win, Niamh Maguire from Engendering Change, Tom Grinsell from WIT Talks Student Life and Rob O’Connor of The Machine. A very Happy Christmas to all our listeners. Recommendation Notes: Bruce Wardrop (Book) A...
Gender and The Law w/ Ivana Bacik
December 10, 2020 19:28 - 37 minutes - 68.8 MBIn our first episode, Niamh Maguire talks with Professor, Senator and Barrister-At-Law Ivana Bacik about gender and the law, and the myriad ways in which law enforces and reinforces gender roles in society. Is the law gender neutral? If, not, in what ways does the law enforce and reinforce stereotypical gender roles? What, if anything, has changed over the last two decades? Their discussion of the gendered nature of law touches on topical issues including the defence of provocation in crimi...
Ivana Bacik
December 10, 2020 19:28 - 37 minutes - 68.8 MBIn our first episode, Niamh Maguire talks with Professor, Senator and Barrister-At-Law Ivana Bacik about gender and the law, and the myriad ways in which law enforces and reinforces gender roles in society. Is the law gender neutral? If, not, in what ways does the law enforce and reinforce stereotypical gender roles? What, if anything, has changed over the last two decades? Their discussion of the gendered nature of law touches on topical issues including the defence of provocation in crimi...
Trailer
December 10, 2020 09:54 - 1 minute - 1.61 MBA trailer for our forthcoming podcast Engendering Change.