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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.
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
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
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