{"id":278,"date":"2024-10-15T12:41:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T11:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/texerenetwork.com\/drinkingcultures\/?p=278"},"modified":"2024-10-15T12:41:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T11:41:43","slug":"cfp-women-and-alcohol-dangerous-pleasuresuniversity-college-dublin-ireland-19-20-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/texerenetwork.com\/drinkingcultures\/2024\/10\/15\/cfp-women-and-alcohol-dangerous-pleasuresuniversity-college-dublin-ireland-19-20-june-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: \u201cWomen and Alcohol: Dangerous Pleasures?\u201dUniversity College Dublin, Ireland – 19-20 June 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Deadline: 13 January 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Women\u2019s pleasure has traditionally been treated as something to be contained or
subjugated to responsibilities within the home and to the larger society. As such, it is
often considered dangerous, to family, to community, to nation. Across the world, the
disruptive potential and threat of women\u2019s pleasure is often intertwined with alcohol.
Against this background, the medicalisation of alcohol consumption further impacted
societal attitudes towards women\u2019s drinking in particular and often limiting terms. In
some countries, legislation or more informal legal interventions by police, were also
gendered and further policed women\u2019s pleasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this conference, co-organised by the \u201cDrinking Cultures\u201d project (Wellcome Trust,
UCD) and the Drinking Studies Network \u201cWomen and Alcohol\u201d cluster, we invite
speakers to consider the perceived dangers of women\u2019s drinking and drunkenness
but also the pleasures associated with it. What counts as \u2018dangerous\u2019 shifts over time
but constructions of harmful pleasure are usually gendered in ways that are culturally
and historically specific. From the moral panic of the ruined mothers of
eighteenth-century England\u2019s gin craze to the green fairy of fin de si\u00e8cle France and
the \u2018Shebeen Queens\u2019 of twentieth-century South Africa, women have often been the
symbolic face of society\u2019s fears about alcohol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We welcome proposals for traditional papers on the topics suggested below but also
in innovative formats and on subjects that speak to the theme more broadly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n