Feminisms Today Speaker Series
In the ‘Feminisms Today’ speaker series, hosted every month by WGS, we have enjoyed the company of groups and individuals that are renowned for their contribution to local, national and international groups. Just in the last 4 years, we have hosted
(Academic Year 2006-2007)
March | February | October
2007-2008 Speakers
2005-2006 Speakers
2004-2005 Speakers
2003-2004 Speakers
March 2007
Faculty Research Panel: Lynn Hudson (History), Teresa Mesa (Hispanic and Latin American Studies), and Joanna Inglot (Art)
In honor of Women's History Month, Macalester faculty talked about their work related to the Women's History Month theme: Women Create! Art, Identity, and Social Change. This event showcased some of the exciting research on women by Mac faculty, and was an opportunity to get to know some of the newer faculty.
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February 2007
Martin F. Manalansan IV is Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, and an affiliate of the Asian American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies programs.
Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping
His book, Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora was published by Duke University Press and was awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize by the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists for the best LGBT book in anthropology in 2003 and Honorable Mention, Cultural Studies Book Prize by the Association for Asian American Studies, 2005. He is the social sciences review editor for GLQ. His publications include two edited collections Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America (Temple University Press, 2000) and (with Arnaldo Cruz-Malave) Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (New York University Press, 2002). His current projects include Manila’s urban modernity, return migration to the Philippines and the cultural politics of space, food, and olfaction in Asian American immigrant communities of New York City.
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October 2006
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her fields of study are feminist theory, American literature, and disability studies. Her scholarly and professional activities are devoted to developing the field of disability studies in the humanities and in women's studies. She is the author of Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Literature and Culture (Columbia UP, 1997), editor of Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (NYU Press, 1996), and co-editor of Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (MLA Press, 2002). She is currently writing two books, one on the dynamics of staring and one on the cultural logic of euthanasia.
Seeing the Disabled: Disability in Popular Photography
Noted feminist disability studies scholar Rosemarie Garland-Thomson analyzed the ways we see disability using images from popular photography. Arguing that disability is not simply a natural state of bodily inferiority and inadequacy, Garland-Thomson demonstrated the ways in which disability is a culturally fabricated narrative of the body, similar to what we understand as race and gender.
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