... but I guess boys could go too. Includes sessions on cyberfeminism, and some excellent speakers (can't promise any dancing skeletons however).
si. Abstracts are cordially invited, from members of all disciplines, for formal papers, panels, installations, readings, performances and/or round-table discussions for: The Third Wave Feminism International Conference Crossmead Conference Centre University of Exeter, UK 23-25 July 2002 Keynote speakers: Germaine Greer, Elaine Showalter, Susan Stryker, E. Ann Kaplan and Nicole Ward Jouve The conference, part of the Institute for Feminist Theory and Research (www.iftr.org.uk) series, will address the parameters of second wave feminism, and post the question of a third wave in feminist theory and history. It will attempt to capture a definition of third wave feminism(s) in order to redirect feminist enquiry without acceding to the defeatism implicit in postfeminism. Topics to include: What is Feminism? Feminist Politics in the Academy Third Wave Femininity Who's Afraid of Essentialism? Between Marxism and Postmodernism Sexualities Historicising the Third Wave Cyberfeminism Visual Culture (un)Popular Feminisms Racial and Gendered Bodies What Happened to the Sisterhood? The Maternal Body Consciousness-Raising Reproductive Technologies Transgender/Genderfucking Reconstructing/Problematising the Second Wave Literary Feminisms Interrogating the "Waves" Class and Gender Between Materialism and Psychoanalysis Confirmed Speakers: Jacqueline Labbe, Kate Fullbrook, Mary Orr, Sara Mills, Jacqueline Rose, John Dupre, Susan Hayward, Clare Hanson, Pamela Church-Gibson and Colin MacCabe. Enquiries and Abstracts (by 14 February 2002): Dr. Stacy Gillis School of English Queen's Building University of Exeter Exeter, EX4 4QH United Kingdom [EMAIL PROTECTED] (01392) 264343 **Please forward to interested individuals or organisations.** ______________ Dr. Stacy Gillis Research Fellow in Cyberculture School of English University of Exeter ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
