Professor Lynne Segal, BA Hons, PhD (Univ of Sydney)
Anniversary Professor of Psychology & Gender Studies, Admission Tutor for PhD Psychosocial Studies
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l.segal@bbk.ac.uk Room LG11, 30 Russell Square |
Research
My research and writing is in the interdisciplinary domain of gender studies. Working at the interface of the social sciences and the humanities, it addresses the diversity of feminist scholarship, psychoanalytic dialogue and critical theory, tackling issues of sexual difference, masculinity and its discontents, sexualities and culture, political identifications and cultural belongings. I have for many years participated in heated debates on the nature and effects of shifting gender practices, changing family forms, new sexual dilemmas, across a variety of media and academic platforms.
Teaching
I am currently helping to establish and will teach on both the core and option courses in the new MA in Psychosocial Studies. I also contribute to the MA/MSc in Gender, Sexuality, Politics and Culture. I supervise Masters and PhD students in the Schools of Psychosocial Studies, as well as in the Schools of Lifelong Learning and English and the Humanities, on topics of masculinity, sexuality, gender, feminism, queer theory and psychoanalysis.
Phd Students
Sophie Oliver, f/t. Topic: Ethical witnessing and the body abject: (re)locating the limits of the human in a culture of human rights
Melissa Bradshaw f/t. Topic: Lacan’s Mirror Stage and Confessional Poetry
Chris Baldwin p/t Topic: Articulating the Male Body: an analysis of American fiction produced in the mid- and late-twentieth century.
Katherine Harrison p/t Topic: Intersections of gender, language and new technology: exploiting mutual dependencies for feminist research.
Polona Curk, f/t Topic: Intimate Autonomy: A feminist psychoanalytic perspective on dependency, destruction and ethical relationality
Sigal Spiegel,p/t Topic: Feminism and Psychoanalysis.
Lucy Scholes, p/t second supervisor, with Dr Rebecca Beasley, on Incest and Sibling Rivalry.
Ana Alvarez , p/t second supervisor, with John Kraniaskus in Modern Languages. Travestis’ Life Narratives in Argentina.
Links with Other Institutions
I am a partner in a research project that received £600,000 from the The Research Council of Norway on the theme: Power and Privilege, Meaning and Management - Gender in the Boardroom, headed up by Professor Agnes Bolsø, University of Trondheim, Norway. This collaborative project includes joint seminar and supervisory arrangements with Professor Mandy Merck from Royal Holloway, University of London, and with Dr Barbara Pini from the Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology. The project will conclude with an open conference in Trondheim in 2009, with several publications in the pipeline. I also have non-funded collaborations with gender researchers at several universities in Australia, especially with R.W.Connell at the University of Sydney. Over the last few years I have also established deepening research links with gender scholars in Oslo, Bergen, Uppsala, Ljubljana, Sarajevo and Barcelona, where I have been the key-note speaker at various conferences, given visiting lectures and been interviewed by the local media in each of these cities. Finally I have various collaborations with Israeli scholars working, strictly, on initiatives for peace and reconciliation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including in particular Professor Uri Hadar at Tel-Aviv University. I am a regular specialist advisor on numerous BBC and independent TV and radio programs.
Books
Segal, L. (2007) Making Trouble: Life & Politics, Serpent’s Tail,Segal, L. (2007) Slow Motion: Men and Masculinities (new edition), Palgrave Press
Segal, L. (1999) Why feminism? Gender, psychology, politics. Polity Press: Columbia University Press.
Segal. L. (ed.) (1997). New Sexual Agendas. London: Macmillan.
Segal, L. (1994) Straight Sex: The Politics of pleasure. Virago Press: Columbia University Press.
Segal, L. (1992). Sex Exposed: Sexuality & the Pornography Debate. Virago: Rutgers
Segal, L. (1990). Slow motion: Changing masculinities, changing men. Virago Press: Rutgers University Press.
Segal, L. (1987). Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism. London: Virago Press.
Segal, L. (ed.) (1983). What is to be done about the family? Harmondsworth, Penguin Books.
Rowbotham, S., Segal, L., & Wainwright, H. (1980). Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism. London: Merlin Press
Book Chapters
Segal, L. (2009), Genders in: The Sage Handbook of Identities, Eds. Margaret Wetherell, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, London, Sage, forthcoming.
Segal, L. (2009), ‘Victims, Virility and Violence: The Landscape of Gender’, in: Socialist Register, London, Merlin Press, forthcoming.
Segal, L. (2008), ‘Seksualitet, politikk og skiftende generasjoner av feminister’ (Intimate Traffic: Repositioning Sexual Politics Across the Generations), in Trine Annfelt, Britt Andersen, Agnes Bolsø (eds), Når heteroseksualiteten må forklare seg, p23-46. Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag.
Segal, L. (2004). New battlegrounds: Genetic maps & sexual politics. In B.M. Brooks-Gordon, L.R. Gelsthorpe, M.H. Johnson , & A. Bainham (Eds.), Sexual Positions: Diversity and the Law. Hart Publishing.
Segal, L. (2001). Beyond gender Cliché: Women in Post-War England. In Felipe Fernanåndez -Armesto (Ed.), A history of England. England 1945-2000 (pp. 427-443). London: The Folio Society.
Segal, L. (2001). British Feminism at the Millennium Feminist Locations: Global/ Local/Theory/Practice in the Twenty-First Century (pp.37-59).Rutgers University Press.
Segal, L. (2000). Empowering women sexually. In J. Ussher (Ed.), Women’s Health: An International Reader (pp. 114-124).The British Psychological Society.
Segal, L. (2000) ‘Gender, genes and genetics: From Darwin to the Human Genome’ in C. Squire (Ed.), Culture in Psychology (pp.31-45). Routledge.
Recent Journal Publications
Segal, L. (2009), ‘After Judith Butler: Identities, Who Needs them?’, Subjectivities,forthcoming.
Segal, L. (2008), ‘All Ages and None: Commentary on Helene Moglen’s Ageing and Trans-Ageing’, Studies in Gender & Sexuality, forthcoming.
Segal, L. (2008), Gender, War and Militarism: Making and Questioning the Links’, Feminist Review, 88: 21-35.
Segal, L. (2008), Women ‘68ers, Marching on Alone, Radical Philosophy, 149, May/June: 12-17.
Segal, L. (2007). Forever young: Medusa's curse and the discourses of aging in Women. A cultural review, 1(2):
Segal, L. (2005)‘The hidden powers of injury’. New Formations, 55.
Segal, L. (2004). Formations of feminism: Memoirs of left (1I). Radical Philosophy, 123,
Segal, L. (2003). Lost worlds: Memoirs of left (1). Radical Philosophy, 121, 6-23.
Segal, L. (2003).Thinking like a man: The cultures of science. Women: A Cultural Review.
Segal, L. (2003), ‘Theoretical afflictions: Rich white folk sing the blues’, New Formations.
Segal, L. (2003). Jews in the culture wars. Radical Philosophy, 116.
Segal, L. (2001). Psychoanalysis and politics: Juliet Mitchell Then and Now. Studies in Gender & Sexuality, 2, (4), 327-344.
Segal, L (2002) ‘Jews in the Culture Wars’. Radical Philosophy, 116 (Nov-Dec), 2-6.
Segal, L. (2001). Forever critical. Journal of Critical Psychology, 1,(1), 79-84.
Segal, L. (2001).Nature’s Way: Responding to and Thornhill and Palmer. Psychology, Evolution & Gender, 3(1), 87-94.
Segal, L. (2001). Back to the boys? Temptations of the good gender theorist. Textual Practice, 15(12), 231-250.
Segal, L. (2001). Lynne Segal talks to Isobel Armstrong in Keeping Optimism Alive. Women: A Cultural Review, 12, (3), 269-275.
Segal, L. (2000). Subject to suspicion: Feminism and Anti-Statism. Social Text, 62, 143-151.
Lynne, L. (2000) ‘Segal, Lynne (2000), ‘Psychoanalysis and politics: Juliet Mitchell then and now’, Radical Philosophy 103 , pp. 12-18Radical Philosophy 103 , pp. 12-18
Professional and Other Publications
I have published in numerous other professional publications, including the Times Higher Education Supplement; Times Literary Supplement; Jewish Chronicle; Australian Review; Drawbridge.
Links to Articles in the Media
Guardian Interview Dec 11, 2000
Inaugural Lecture Dec 13
Raewyn Connell on Lynne Segal in RIHSS Key Thinkers Public Lecture Series
BBC - Radio 4 Woman's Hour -Lynne Segal