Gender, Sex and Sexualities
Convenor
Dr Bianca Fileborn, University of Melbourne
Dr Rachel Loney-Howes, University of Wollongong
Description
Criminology in Australia and New Zealand is internationally renowned for leading research across a range of areas relating to gender identity and sexuality. The Gender, Sex & Sexualities thematic group aims to bring together scholars, students, activists and practitioners working across all aspects of criminology that relate to gender identity and sexuality. The group strives to provide an inclusive and productive space for driving critical, theoretical, empirical, and applied thinking.
We welcome people at all stages of their careers whose work focuses on areas including,
but not limited to:
• Gender-based violence (including sexual and domestic violence)
• Masculinities
• Legal and discursive regulation of gender, sex and sexualities (incl. emerging identities)
• Trans and gender-diverse lives
• Indigenous sexual and gender identities
• Sex work and pornography
• The regulation of sexual practices (normative and non-normative)
• The legal production/construction and regulation of sex, gender and sexualities
• LGBTQ+ communities’ experiences of the criminal legal system
• Queer criminology
• Theories of genders and sexualities
• Research methods for exploring and examining genders and sexualities
• Advocacy, activism and social justice
Aims and objectives
• Foster collaborative, collegial and cross-disciplinary relationships between scholars, students and activists in the field;
• Support the career development of early career researchers;
• Support academic development of methodologies and methodological expertise;
• Enhance understandings of how gender identity, sexuality and sex shape crime and criminal legal responses;
• Develop pedagogical practices and teaching materials that strengthen the relationship between gender, sexuality, crime and justice;
• Promote criminological research and theory using a gendered, intersectional, and/or queer lens;
• Organise and promote ANZSOC conference sessions that relate to gender identity, sexualities and crime, and other events throughout the year
• Enhance the profile and impact of work relating to gender identity and sexuality in criminology.
Members
- Lynzi Armstrong, Victoria University, Wellington
- Justin Ellis, University of Newcastle
- Kate Fitzgibbon, Monash University
- Dave McDonald, University of Melbourne
Updated September 2024.