LSE Student’s Union Women’s Week Event Timetable – January 21st-25th

21 January 2008 in Equality, London, Women's Event

Women’s Week 2008
A week to celebrate LSE diversity and engage with issues of Gender Equality and awareness.

Monday 21st
* Judith Orr, editor of the Socialist Review and author of ‘Sexism and the System’, leads a discussion of the roots of Women’s Liberation and commercialisation of sexism within raunch culture. – D502 4pm
* Patriarchal Islam: Myth or Reality? LSESU Islamic Society – H102 6pm

Tuesday 22nd
* Women in Prison – A discussion of the current debates around the experiences of women in the justice system and the potential of alternatives to prison-based punitive measures with the Smart Justice for Women campaign – G108 2pm

Wednesday 23rd
* A discussion on the current issues around a Woman’s Right to Choose, with Abortion Rights UK and Doctors for a Woman’s Choice on Abortion. All views welcome. – D302 1pm

Thursday 24th
* LSESU Feminist Society – Women Against Rape – Graham Wallas Room 12pm
* Gender Institute Public Lecture with the LSESU French Society: Cover up: French gender equality and the Islamic headscarf – In her lecture Professor Joan Scott takes a critical look at one aspect of the ban on Islamic headscarves enacted in 2005 in France. She will examine ‘a clash of gender systems’ as a way of trying to understand some of the force of the reaction to Islam there. – New Theatre 6.30pm

Friday 25th
* Women, Not Sex Objects – a discussion of the objectification of Women in the Media – Graham Wallas Room 12pm
* Prostitution: the case for decriminalisation with the Safety First Coalition – With the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill (CJIB) currently passing through Parliament, the criminalisation of the clients of prostitutes is being increasingly discussed. This discussion will focus on New Zealand’s decriminalisation of prostitution and the Swedish model in relation to the effects on women’s health and safety. With the Safety First Coalition and Catherine Healy, the founding member and national co-coordinator of the New Zealand Prostitute’s Collective and a member of the New Zealand Prostitution Law review Committee. – D1 2pm

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