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Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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Subject: Conference call for papers (fwd)
CALL FOR PAPERS:
THE POLITICS OF RESPECTABILITY
APRIL 10, 1999
A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE ORGANIZED BY THE THE LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES PROJECT
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
The moment of institutionalization is a crucial one, producing new
hierarchies of power, new inclusions and exclusions, creating new senses
of achievement and old and new feelings of betrayal, limiting some
horizons while expanding others. We are interested in investigating the
changing nature of sexual politics in the context of nearly a decade of
institutionalized lesbian and gay studies in the American academy.
Reflecting on the dynamics of this institutionalization, and the changing
relationship of activism and academia, opens onto such related issues as
the institutionalization and professionalization of the lesbian/gay
movement, and the increasing commercialization and mainstreaming of
lesbian and gay identities. All of these phenomena engage broader
questions of respectability. The goal of this conference is to examine
the assistance and restrictions "respectability" offers various political
projects. How have struggles and negotiations over political
participation, self-definitions,and community norms appropriated, subverted,
reinforced, or been limited by definitions of respectability? Can the
concept of respectability be anything other than a normative regime of
power? Can respectability be recuperated/ channeled/ subverted for a
critical liberatory sexual politics?
We seek papers that address questions of respectability, subversion,
legitimacy, tolerance, deviance, betrayal, queerness, assimilation,
agency, scandal, utopianism in the relation of institutions to critical
sexual politics.
1 page abstracts can be emailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or sent by
regular mail to: Neville Hoad
209 Gates-Blake Hall
University of Chicago
Chicago, Il 60637
Abstracts are due by January 31 1999.
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker
Division of Environmental Management & Design
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 84
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fax: 64-03-325-3841
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