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, Professor of History, Rutgers University
"A Reprise
in Women's Culture?"
Public Talk
4:30 p.m., Reception 6:00-7:00 p.m. (Reception co-hosted by the
Institute for Women's Leadership), Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett
Building - 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus
In the early
1980's the concept of women's culture flared briefly, only to
die a sudden death. Suzanne Lebsock takes a retrospective
look at women's culture and considers what is at stake when we
embrace--or--abandon gender analysis in its simplest forms.
Suzanne
Lebsock is author of A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice
on Trial (Norton, 2003); The Free Women of Petersburg:
Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860 (1984);
"A Share of Honour": Virginia Women, 1600-1945 (1984),
and Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism (co-edited
with Nancy A. Hewitt, 1993).
, Professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender
Studies, Columbia University
"Other Differences:
Feminism Meets Culture and Class in the Middle East"
Reception
4:00, Public Talk 4:30 , Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building,
162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus
Reflecting
on the "Afghan woman question," on one hand, and some television
dramas produced by feminists in Egypt, Lila Abu-Lughod asks: What
challenges confront Western feminists when they must respond to
Muslim women? What are the limits of the developmentalist
feminism prevalent in the "Third World" when it deals with rural
and poor women?
Lila
Abu-Lughod has worked on women's issues in the Middle East
for over twenty years. She has authored and edited several
books on the topic, including Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin
Stories (University of California Press, 1993), Remaking
Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East (Princeton
University Press, 1998), and Veiled Sentiments: Honor and
Poetry in a Bedouin Society (University of California Press,
1986). Professor Abu-Lughod met with members of the IRW/IWL
seminar from 10:30 to noon on Thursday, October 16.
, Professor of Education, University of Sydney
"Masculinity
Politics and World Society"
Reception
4:00, Public Talk 4:30 , Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building,
162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus
"Globalization"
is re-shaping our conceptions of the social, including our understanding
of gender politics. How are local masculinities changing
under the pressures of new international capitalism? What
forms of masculinity are emerging in transnational arenas? How are men's interests articulated, and how is masculinity deployed,
in world politics? This lecture will bring together international
research in this field and propose a way to understand masculinity
politics in global society.
R.W.
Connell is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia,
recipient of the American Sociological Association award for distinguished
contribution to the study of sex and gender. His research
interests have centered on social structure and the dynamics of
change, the way personal lives are shaped within social contexts,
and the interplay between education and social forces. Recent
books include Gender (Blackwell 2002); The Men and
the Boys (UC Press 2000); Male Roles, Masculinities,
and Violence: A Culture of Peace Perspective (UNESCO 2000;
co-edited with Ingeborg Breines and Ingrid Eide); Masculinities
(UC Press 1995). His current projects include a study of
intellectuals in relation to globalization, a study of gender
equity in public institutions, and a study of vocational education
and senior secondary school reform. Professor Connell met
with members of the IRW/IWL seminar from 10:30 to noon on Tuesday,
Novemeber 25.
, Professor of History, Indiana University
"Gender, Sexuality,
and the Politics of Social Construction"
Reception
4:00, Public Talk 4:30 , Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building,
162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus
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Joanne
Meyerowitz will use her recent book, How Sex Changed:
A History of Transsexuality in the United States (2002),
to enter into a broader discussion of nature, nurture, and social
constructionist theories of the mid-twentieth century.
In How
Sex Changed, Joanne Meyerowitz uses the social, cultural,
and medical history of transsexuality as a window into changing
definitions of biological sex, gender, and sexuality in the twentieth
century. Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago,
1880-1930 (1988), considers how a seemingly marginal group
of women and workers challenged and reshaped mainstream conceptions
of womanhood. Her edited volume, Not June Cleaver: Women
and Gender in Postwar America 1945-1960 (1994), presents
a revisionist view that challenged the stereotype of domestic,
complacent women in the post-war era. Professor Meyerowitz
will also meet with members of the IRW/IWL seminar from 10:30
to noon on Thursday, February 5.
, Professor of Photography & Imaging, Tisch School
of the Arts, New York University
"The Black
Female Body: A Photographic History"
Reception
4:00, Public Talk 4:30 , Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building,
162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus
The interplay
between the historical and the contemporary, between self-presentation
and representation, is fundamental to this discussion, which brings
together photographs and illustrations ranging from the earliest
known drawings and photographic portraits made in Africa of Sarah
Baartman in the early 1800s, to the little-know 1930's studies
by Edward Weston, to work by contemporary artists including Lorna
Simpson and Carrie Mae Weems.
A 2000 MacArthur
Foundation Fellowship award winner, Deborah Willis is Professor
of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts, New
York University. She is an exhibiting photographer; in addition,
her investigation and recovery of the rich legacy of African American
photography provides and invaluable and irreplaceable resource.
Among her most notable book projects are Reflections in Black:
A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present, W.W.
Norton, New York (2000) and The Black Female Body: A Photographic
History with Carla Williams (2002). Professor Willis
will participate in a dinner discussion with IRW/IWL seminar participants
and friends immediately following her lecture.
, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers
University
"The Future
of Female Sexuality: The Becoming of Sexual Difference"
Reception
4:00, Public Talk 4:30 , Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building,
162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus
This paper
will speculate on how female sexuality and desire challenges and
problematizes scientific explanations presented of it, and how
it may be necessary to transform how we understand science in
order to understand female sexuality more accurately.
Elizabeth
Grosz's books include Architecture from the Outside: Essays
on Virtual and Read Space (MIT 2001); Space, Time and
Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies (Routledge 1995);
Volitile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (Indiana
UP 1994); Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction
(Routledge 1990); Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists
(Unwin and Hyman 1989). Her areas of research are contemporary
French philosophy, feminist theory and theories of space and time.
Professor Grosz will participate in a dinner discussion with IRW/IWL
seminar participants and friends immediately following her lecture.
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