Chris Weedon (born 1952,

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ...

) is a British academic, and Professor Emerita at

Cardiff University Cardiff University () is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the University of Wales in 1893. It was renamed Unive ...

Life

She graduated from

Southampton University The University of Southampton (abbreviated as ''Soton'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university in Southampton, England. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities in the United K ...

and took her doctorate at the

University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as ...

. After her Phd she went into teaching whilst living in the UK and Germany. She joined Cardiff University in 1984. Her 1987 book ''Feminist Practice & Poststructuralist Theory'' has been translated into German and Korean. In 2010 she announced £4m funding for a project on multiculturalism at Cardiff University. The project would fund four PhD students, and the research would look at the challenges to culture for both white and black citizens. Weedon considered that there were particular complexities for those living in Wales. Weedon was the chair of the Butetown History & Arts Centre.

Works

Author

*''Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory'' ( B. Blackwell, 1987) 2nd. ed 2003. **Review **translated into German by Elke Hentschel as ''Wissen und Erfahrung : feministische Praxis und poststrukturalistische Theorie'' 1991 **translated into Chinese by Xiaohong Bai as: 女性主義實踐與後結構主義理論 / Nu xing zhu yi shi jian yu hou jie gou zhu yi li lun **translated into Korean as: 여성해방의 실천과 후기 구조주의 이론 *''Feminism, Theory and the Politics of Difference'' (Blackwell Publishers, 1999). *'' Identity and Culture: Narratives of Difference and Belonging ''(Open University Press, 2004), *''Gender, Feminism and Fiction in Germany 1840-1914'' (Peter Lang, 2007) *''Cultural politics : class, gender, race, and the postmodern world'' (with Glenn Jordan) B. Blackwell, 1995 ::Review

Editor

*''Die Frau in der DDR: An Anthology of Women's Writing from the German Democratic Republic'' ( B. Blackwell, 1988) *''Postwar Women's Writing in German: Feminist Critical Approaches'' (Berghahn Books, 1997). **Review by R RossiRussi, R. 1999. "Chris Weedon, Postwar Women's Writing in German". ''SEMINAR -TORONTO''-. 35, no. 1: 91-9 *''Gendering Border Studies'' (with Jane Aaron; Henrice Altink) University of Wales Press, 2010

References

External links

* https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/135189-weedon-chris *https://www.vub.be/TALK/BBWW/index.php?id=36 {{DEFAULTSORT:Weedon, Chris 1952 births Living people Academics of Cardiff University Alumni of the University of Southampton Alumni of the University of Birmingham