FYI...Stefanie
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From: Susan Mary Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Conference website: http://www.duke.edu/~athain/discipline.html
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker
Division of Environmental Management & Design
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 56
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fax: 64-03-325-3841
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