On June 10,  Dr. Karen O Connell from the University of Technology, Sydney, will join the Recovery Working Group and share her sabbatical research about the gendering of “stressˮ and how we use, or misuse, the concepts of stress and trauma to compensate women for gendered harms (especially sex discrimination and sexual harassment) or to render certain harms invisible.

Her  initial reading shows that stress studies are grounded in assumptions about the inherent stress levels of various activities that donʼt match womenʼs lived experience. This work will also explore whether a compound concept such as “stressˮ can be used to encourage a more intersectional approach to harm in law.

More information on this event soon.