Chris Weedon (born 1952, Hamburg) is a British academic, and Professor Emerita at Cardiff University.
Life
She graduated from Southampton University and took her doctorate at the University of Birmingham. 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 ã4m 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æ§主義實è¸ÂèÂÂå¾ÂçµÂæ§Â主義çÂÂè« / Nu xing zhu yi shi jian yu hou jie gou zhu yi li lun
- translated into Korean as: 쓱ô방ì ì¤ì²Âê³¼ ÃÂÂ기 구조주ì ì´ë¡Â
- 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 Rossi
- 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