Sixth International Congress on Sex and Gender Diversity

Papers Accepted to Date: 10^th August 2004

Keynotes Speakers:

• Jamison Green: Transsexual Disclosure: Privacy vs. Secrecy; Pride and Confidentiality.
• Susan Stryker: Showing and Discussing her Special Screening of the Pre-Release Version of her new film: “Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria”

Papers & Speakers

1. A Comparative Overview Of Female Portraits In The Paintings Of Iranian Artists Over The Last Three Decades: A Feminist Approach
   Nahid Abdi, Head of Textile Design Department, University of Art, Tehran, Iran.
2. The Gender Frontier: Changing Visions of Sex, Gender, and Politics
   Mariette Pathy Allen, MFA, photographer, works include “The Gender Frontier” and “Transformations: Cross dressers and those who love them”, USA
3. Social Acceptance: Transgender in Britain and in Thailand
   Anne Beaumont-Vernon, MA, BA (Hons). Research Student, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK
4. Objects of desire: performing the transgendered body
   Martin Berg, Doctoral candidate, Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden
5. Transsexuality and Citizenship in Contemporary Argentina
   Mauro Cabral Ph.D schollar, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. RedTrans (Argentina); (IGLHRC)
6. Spanish Transsexualism In The Bosom Of Europe
   Àlec Casanova Ferrer, Valencia, Spain
7. Policing the trans-identified body - an historical perspective
   Louise Chambers, Department of Media & Communications, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London, UK
8. The Master Mistress of my Passion: Transeroticism in Shakespeare’s Sonnet
   Jed Chandler, University of Wales, Newport, UK
9. Men without Vice: Passing Men in Medieval Literature
   Jed Chandler, University of Wales, Newport, UK
10. (Han-)Chinese Buddhist Rhetoricization of Legal Politics: Postcolonial discourse on Law Controlling Sex Work in Hong Kong
    Dr. CHIU Man-Chung, Lecturer, School of Law, Charles Darwin University, Australia, Ms. Yim Yuet-Lin, Co-ordinator, ZiTeng, Hong Kong
11. The Ftm Changing Voice
    Alexandros N. Constansis, Music / Gender Studies, University of Reading - UK
12. Determinants and correlates of Attitudes held by Irish Catholic and Protestant women towards the Irish Constitution and Knowledge of personal/legal rights?
    Florence Craven, Centre for Gender/Women’s Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
13. Sexual Curiosity as Challenging Behaviour: A disenfranchised tradition in the disability sector.
    Kathy Crouch, Clinical Services Manager/Psychologist, Hunter Support Services, Australia
14. The Constitution of Sex and the Sex of the Constitution (U.S.)
    David B. Cruz, Professor of Law, University of Southern California Law School, USA
15. A Western transsexual woman’s transition in an Eastern culture
    Gill Chrystina Dalton, Thailand
16. Sexual Diversity And Role Structure In Fulbe Nomadic Homestead: Issues In Gender Education
    Adedeji Daramola, Dept. Of Environmental Sciences, Covenant University, Otta, and Olufemi Aina, Nomadic Housing Research Group, Lagos - Nigeria
17. Gender Diversity In Education: Sexism, Culture And Religion Issues
    Daramola, Y. Damola (Mrs), College Of Human Development, Covenant University, Canaanland, Otta - Nigeria
18. It’s a Straight, Straight World: Redressing the Absence of Gender Diversity in Contemporary Non-genre Fiction
    Kristy Davidson, The School of Culture, Communication and Languages at Victoria University, Australia
19. From postmodern sexual subjectivity to conscious evolution?: notes on the potential for identity development from narrative analysis
    Edward Davies, Manchester Metropolitan Universty, United Kingdom
20. Not the Head but the Heart
    Kenneth Dollarhide, Ph.D., Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, USA
21. Who Put the “Trans” in Transgender? Who Took out the “Gender”?
    Dr Richard Ekins, University of Ulster, Dr Dave King, Unievrsity of Liverpool, UK
22. Authoring Trans-Subjectivity: trans narratives and the need to think again the relationship between medico-psychiatry and trans-subjectivity.
    Jo Flannery, University Of Sheffield, UK
23. The Place of Transgenderism in U.S. Same-Sex Marriage Debates
    Patrick Garlinger, Northwestern University, USA
24. Reframing the “Center” to Expand Civil Rights
    Jamison Green, MMU School of Law, Gender Education & Advocacy, Transgender, Law & Policy Institute, USA
25. Parental Alienation Syndrome: Divorced Transsexual Parent’s Access to Children
    Prof. Richard Green, Head, Gender Identity Clinic Charing Cross Hospital, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine at Charing Cross
26. A Deputy essential: A study of the impact of Culture, Gender and Power on sex/sexuality education for women in the Caribbean
    Ruby Greene, Keele University, UK
27. The Good, the Bad and the Law - Austria’s legal response to Transsexuality
    Elizabeth Greif, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
28. À propos du sexe de l’âme
    Michael Groneberg, Département de Philosophie, Université Fribourg Miséricorde, Switzerland
29. Transphobia as the Genesis of Heterosexist Violence and Oppression
    Jakob Hero, Croatia
30. Sex And Women In Nigeria; A Religious Overview
    Dr (Mrs) Celestina O. Isiramen, Acting Director, General Studies Unit, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria
31. Gender and Land Reform in South Africa
    Susie Jacobs, Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
32. Gender Without Genitals: Hedwig’s Six Inches
    Jordy Jones, University of California, USA
33. Transitioning On The Job: Pragmatics and Perspective From a MTF Trade Unionist
    Lisa Kassner, Pride at Work, Los Angeles, California
34. Producing Identity: Self Demand Amputation, Surgery and Disability
    Harminder Dosanjh Kaur, University of Hull, UK.
35. Dis-Integrating Transgendered Women: Judicial Diminishment of Feminized Harm
    Umni Khan, University if Michigan, USA
36. Challenging Transphobia within the NHS and LGB communities in Scotland.
    Nick Laird, Community Development Officer, Beyond Barriers and LGBT Health INCLUSION Project, Scotland
37. The Development of Information Resources by The Sandyford Trans Support Group their influence on services
    Nick Laird, The Sandyford Trans Support Group, Scotland
38. Cyberwoman and her Surgeon: Autonomy or Control
    Melanie Latham, School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
39. Transfigurations: transgender in the Mexican cinematic imaginary
    Vek Lewis, Ph.D candidate, Hispanic Studies, Monash University, Australia
40. Classificatory Systems, Treatment Options and Lived Experiences of Transsexualism: Harry Benjamin and his patients, 1950-1975
    Nicholas Matte, Graduate Student, University of Toronto
41. The Life And Times Of The Sliced Transsexual Brain
    Claire McNab, Vice-president, Press For Change, UK
42. Reflecting or Constructing the Self: FTM Identities and (Applied) Theatre Practice
    Catherine McNamara, Central School of Speech and Drama, UK
43. Gender Outlawed: Transsexuality and the Invention of (Legal) Men and Women
    Stacey (Tey) Meadow, J.D., Department of Sociology, New York University, USA
44. Emerging identities in mobile society: the case of trafficking of women in the EU
    Galina Miazhevich, Human Resource Management at the University of Manchester, UK.
45. The Dialogic Construction of Self : Extraordinary Bodies, Ordinary Lives
    Deborah Micallef, PhD canditate, Writing, Edith Cowan University, Bunbury, Western Australia
46. Theorising gender diversity
    Dr Surya Monro, Leeds University, UK
47. Challenging Archaic Stereotypes: The Modern Second Generation Indian Woman
    Anjoom Mukadam, PhD Lancaster University, Centre for Excellence in Leadership and Sharmina Mawani (PhD student at SOAS, University of London) UK
48. Rights to Sex and Gender Diversity
    Kate Nash, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
49. Old Saws and New Activism : the Transsexual Movement in France
    Stéphanie Nicot, A.S.B. (Association du Syndrome de Benjamin)
50. TransAzioni - transgender and transsexualism FtM in Italy - a psychosocial research
    Mary Nicotra, President of Associazione DonneInViaggio
51. Articulations on Gender Identity and Intersex in the Media
    Michelle O’Brien, Department of Sociology, School of Business Computing and Social Science, Southlands College, University of Surrey Roehampton, UK
52. Homosexual Identity: A multidimensional perspective
    Henrique Pereira, PhD (cand.), University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal
    Isabel Leal, PhD Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada , (Institute of Applied Psychology), Portugal
    Thomas Hofsäss, PhD, University of Hamburg, Germany
53. Transpositive Health Care At Sherbourne Health Centre
    Rupert Raj, M.A., Counselling, Lgbtt Counsellor, Sherbourne Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
54. Sartorial Sexualities: The Role of the Clothes in the ’Fabrication’ of Subversive Sexual Identities
    Jennifer Redmond, Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
55. Trans Masculinity; Questions of the Performativity of Masculinity in the work of Ian McEwan
    Zoe Reed, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
56. Grabbing Ghosts: Transgender and Psycho-Medical Discourses on the Certainty of Gender
    Katrina Roen (Ph.D.), Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Health Research Lancaster University, LA1 4YT, U.K.
57. Gender differences in University Student’s Attitudes Toward Mathematics in Kuwait
    Khayria Saif, Kuwait
58. Can We Play Sports? The Islamic Perspective of Women and Sports
    Wardah Salman, School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University and University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
59. Passing Muster: The “Singular” Case Of Deborah Sampson
    Kenneth Salzer, Kent State Univ-Trumbull, USA
60. Analysis Of Feminization Of Poverty Through The Denial of Access Of Female Children to School: Case Of Rural Southeast Anatolia
    Leyla Sen, History Department, Bilkent University, Turkey
61. “On the Pull” Visual Representation and Trans Erotics
    Eliza Steinbock, University of Leeds, USA
62. Gender Identity is for Everyone, Creating a Paradigm for Change
    Moonhawk River Stone, B.S., Ph.D. Candidate, Board Chair, International Foundation for Gender Education, Inc. & Co-Chair New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy, Inc, USA
63. Using Science And Medicine To Serve Gender Dysphoric And Transsexual People
    Petra de Sutter, MD, PhD GIRES, and Ghent University, Belgium
64. Bodies of difference and transitional moments: How do Bodies Materialise?
    Lewis Turner, University of Lancaster
65. Rights discourse and the essentialisation of sex and gender: Transgender and intersexed rights in post-apartheid South Africa
    Pierre de Vos, Professor of Law, University of Western Cape, and Estian Smit, PhD candidate, University of Western Cape, South Africa
66. The Different Roads To Reform, A Paper Evaluatng And Comparing The Two (Divergent) Roads Of Legal And Human Rights Reform (Judicial And Legislative) Being Followed By People With Transsexualism In The 21^st Century
    Rachael Wallbank BA LLB AccSpec (Family Law) LSNSW, NSW., Australia
67. Adam and Eve? Virginia Prince, the first transgender person
    Stephen Whittle, PhD, MA, LLB, BA, Reader in Law, The School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
68. Conceptions of sameness and difference: Gender and identity construction in the Middle High German epic ’Wolfdietrich’
    Silke Winst, University of Potsdam, Germany
69. Transgender Psychosocial Issues and Aging
    Tarynn M. Witten, PhD, MSW, FGSA, Senior Fellow and Executive Director, TranScience Research Institute, USA
70. Oral Health in Transgender Populations
    Tarynn M. Witten, PhD, MSW, FGSA, Senior Fellow and Executive Director, TranScience Research Institute, USA
71. Bank Lending Transactions, Wife, Heterosexual, Homosexual and Law of Undue Influence: How Far Do The Principles in Barclays Bank plc v O’Brien applicable in Malaysia
    Noor Inayah Yaakub, University of Manchester, UK