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Regulation of Family, Sex, and Gender Workshop
This workshop, conducted over two sequential quarters, exposes students to recent academic work in the regulation of family, sex, gender, and sexuality and in feminist theory. Workshop sessions, to be held irregularly throughout the winter and spring, are devoted to the presentation and discussion of papers from outside speakers and University faculty. The substance and methodological orientation of the papers will both be diverse.

All sessions run on Thursday from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. in Room B.

Winter 2008:


January 24: "Red Families v. Blue Families," June Carbone, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Commentator: Michele Goodwin

January 31: "Cross Dressing and the Criminal," Bennett Capers, Hofstra. Commentators: Susan Bandes and Lauren Berlant

February 7: "Prosecuting The Womb," Michele Goodwin, Minnesota and Chicago. Commentator: Scott Anderson  

March 6: "White Supremacy Is in Peril: Race, Marriage and Sovereignty in the New World Order," Jane Dailey, University of Chicago Dept. of History; Commentator: Geof Stone

Spring 2008:


April 10: "Revisiting the Class Parity Analysis of Welfare Work Requirements," Noah Zatz, UCLA and Chicago; Commentator: Lee Fennell. Supplemental reading: “What Welfare Requires from Work

April 17: "Intimate Discrimination," Elizabeth Emens, Columbia; Commentator: Martha Nussbaum

April 24: "Beyond Intimacy," Laura Rosenbury, Wash. U.
Commentator: Robin Effron

May 1: "Intimacy in Economic Organizations," Viviana Zelitzer, Princeton

May 8: "Setttling out of Court, Marriage, and Divorce in Post-colonial Gabon," Rachel Jean-Baptiste, University of Chicago Dept. of History

May 15: "Notes on the Construction of the Marriage System," Janet Halley, Harvard. Commentator: Dick Helmholz