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>From: Laura Shanner <laura.shanner@utoronto.ca>
>Subject: Call for Papers: "Discipline and Deviance" (5/30; 10/2-4)] (fwd)
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>> CALL FOR PAPERS (please forward)
>>
>> Discipline and Deviance: Genders, Technologies,
>Machines
>>
>> A Conference at Duke University
>> October 2-4, 1998
>>
>> Some feminist theorists such as Donna Haraway suggest
>that
>>our implication in technology breaks down stable identity
>>categories, such as human and machine, man and woman. New
>>medical and reproductive technologies further challenge the
>>permanence of sexed bodies as a means of establishing
>gendered
>>difference, and enable new family units which challenge the
>>heterosexual dyad.
>>
>> However, if technology has been seen as a means of
>>challenging strict gendered identities, and thus offering a
>>critique of and alternative to identity politics, it has
>also
>>been theorized as perpetuating and constructing gender
>>identities. For example, feminist approaches in the West
>to
>>film, television, and domestic technology have argued that
>>technology is often a means of reinforcing and policing
>gendered
>>categories and roles. We invite proposals that will
>critically
>>assess the gendered relations which are produced by and
>produce
>>technology in a global perspective.
>>
>>Speakers confirmed: Valerie Hartouni, Lisa Nakamura, Sadie
>Plant
>>
>>Possible topics could include:
>>
>> * technologies of the workplace and/or home--domestic
>> appliances, industrial technologies, telecommunications,
>> computers, video games
>> * technology and dependency theory--farming equipment,
>> fertilizer, industrial plants
>> * the internet
>> * visual technologies--film, TV, virtual reality
>> * science fiction--feminist utopias, third genders
>> * reproductive technology--in-vitro fertilization,
>abortion,
>> sterilization, birth control, cloning
>> * medical technologies--cosmetic surgery, transsexual
>> operations, hormonal interventions
>> * cyborgs
>> * technologies of therapy--"talking" cures versus
>> psychopharmaceutic, prozac, lobotomies
>> * 'soft' technologies--cosmetics, hair straightening,
>lingerie,
>> diet pills, exercise machines/videos
>> * the body as machine--drug addicts, professional
>athletes,
>> anorexia, bulimia
>> * sexuality/eroticism as technology--pornography, s/m
>toys,
>> phone sex
>>
>>Please send 300 word abstracts by May 30 1998 to:
>>Susan Brook or Alanna Thain
>>The Literature Program
>>Art Museum 104
>>Box 90670
>>Duke University
>>Durham, NC 27708-0670
>>
>>Email: smb7@acpub.duke.edu, athain@acpub.duke.edu
>>
>>Conference website:
>http://www.duke.edu/~athain/discipline.html
>
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