Gender Arc Research Seminar Series Autumn 2018: Women’s Precarious Labour in Post-Socialism- Textile Production in South-East Europe

Gender Arc Research Seminar Series Autumn 2018

 Women’s Precarious Labour in Post-Socialism:

Textile Production in South-East Europe

 By Dr Chiara Bonfiglioli

Chiara Bonfiglioli is a Lecturer in Gender & Women’s Studies at University College Cork. She received her MA and PhD in Gender Studies from Utrecht University. Between 2012 and 2017 she held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Pula, and the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. Her research addresses women’s and feminist history from a transnational perspective, with a specific focus on the former Yugoslavia and Italy. She recently completed a monograph titled Women and Industry in the Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector (forthcoming with I.B. Tauris, 2019).

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Coordinating Committee (2018-19): Sarah Anne Buckley (History), Miriam Haughton (Drama, Theatre and Performance), Amie Lajoie (Political Science and Sociology/Global Women’s Studies), Muireann O’Cinneide (English), Tina Karen Pusse (German), Niamh Reilly (Political Science and Sociology)