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CALL FOR PAPERS--PLEASE CIRCULATE
Contributors are sought for a workshop on
Since the fin de siecle there has been a plethora of revisionist narratives of history, civilization, society, and individual development with sex and/or gender at their center. The extraordinary place of gender and sexuality in modern European self understanding will be interrogated in this workshop. The focus here will not be how notions of sexual and gendered identities have been revised in the twentieth century, but rather how a turn to the sexual subject has sent shockwaves through the meta-narratives of modern European thought.
Michel Foucault's last major project will clearly need to be revisited in the workshop, but we also hope to explore such diverse thinkers as, for example, Freud, Otto Weininger, Magnus Hirschfeld, Durkheim, Fromm, Marcuse, de Beauvoir, Levi-Strauss, Margaret Mead, and Lacan; more recent theoretical and historiographical discourses (including gender theory, queer theory, and histories of sexuality); literary production as well as social science; lesser-known but symptomatic figures as well as influential writers. Readings of the place of sex and gender in twentieth-century historiography, natural science, and anthropology are particularly welcome. Papers will be grouped by topics which might include, for example: Feminism and the Rewriting of History; Early Feminisms; Sexual Histories in Anthropology; Gendered Discourses of Degeneration; Sciences of the Erotic Subject; Sexuality and Violence; Sexology and Cultural Critique; Psychoanalysis I: Refiguring the Subject; Psychoanalysis II: Discontented Civilizations. While the conference focuses on modern European thought, comparative investigations of early modern texts and the colonial, post-colonial and American contexts will be included.
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