[eccr] Sex and the Body Politic

From: http://www.ksu.edu/english/symposium/index.html

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Sex and the Body Politic

13th Annual Cultural Studies Conference
March 4-6, 2004
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA

Plenary Speakers:
    * Elizabeth Grosz, author of Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the 
Politics of Bodies and Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism, editor 
of Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism
    * Carl Phillips, author of In the Blood, Pastoral, Cortige
    * Donald Hall, author of Queer Theories, The Academic Self: An Owners 
Manual, editor of Representing Bisexualities: Subjects and Cultures of 
Fluid Desire

Topic:

 From clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic church, to repressive Taliban 
policies toward women in Afghanistan, to same sex marriage, to debates 
about how gender should be determined, sex is a topic that garners lavish 
popular and critical attention. From Michel Foucault's examination of our 
garrulity about sex, to Judith Butler's theory of performativity, to 
Elizabeth Grosz's emphasis on the diversity of sexually specific bodies, 
important contemporary thinkers have brought issues of sexuality and 
society to the forefront of debates within cultural studies. "Sex and the 
Body Politic" considers the construction of sexual identity as a function 
of political, social, and economic forces.

We invite papers or paper proposals that explore the intersections between 
structures of "sex" and the discourses of law, science, medicine, history, 
religion, empire, and cultural taste, to name a few. We invite papers on 
all periods from ancient to the future.

Possible paper or panel topics:
    * sex and travel
    * sex and race
    * sex and gender
    * sexual selection (plants/animals/humans)
    * sex & the market
    * sex rituals and practices
    * sex and education
    * sex and discourse
    * reproduction/childbirth/maternity
    * sex and religion
    * sex and the media
    * sex and beauty
    * sex and war

Send 1-page abstracts to:
Michele Janette
Director, Cultural Studies Program
English Department
Kansas State University 106 Denison Hall
Manhattan KS, 66506-0701
Email submissions are encouraged: send to 
<mailto:(mjanette /at/ ksu.edu)?subject=Sex_and_Body_Politic>(mjanette /at/ ksu.edu).
Deadline: October 20, 2003.


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Sex and the Body Politic: Main | Featured Speakers: Grosz, Phillips, Hall | 
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Some previous conferences: <http://www.ksu.edu/english/property>Property, 
Commodity, Culture (1997) | <http://www.ksu.edu/english/violence>Violence, 
Incorporated (1998) | <http://www.ksu.edu/english/realculture.html>Real 
Culture, Reproduction(s), and Rip-Offs (1999) | 
<http://www.ksu.edu/english/whocounts.html>Who Counts? (2000) | 
<http://www.ksu.edu/english/family.html>Family, Kinship & Cultural Studies 
(2001) | <2002/index.htm>Late Modern Planet (2002) | <2003/index.htm>Brain 
Power (2003).


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