REVISIONING WOMEN, HEALTH AND HEALING:
FEMINIST, CULTURAL & TECHNOSCIENCE STUDIES PERSPECTIVES
October 6-7, 1995
UC San Francisco
Edited excerpt from conference announcement:
Gendered, cultured, historicized, classed, raced and otherwise
situated women are routinely erased as actors in the production of
health, health care per se, as well as health politics and policy.Yet a
sea change has been occuring across many if not most segments of the
social sciences and humanities in terms of freshways of conceptualizing
multiplicities, multiculturalisms, cultural critiwues, bodies,
identities, marginalities, differences, women, subjects, objects,
communities, practices and an array of other elements linked to modernity
and post modernity. This Conference will draw on these new approaches to
again rupture increasingly biomedicalized frameworks of women's health.
THIS CONFERENCE IS FREE. DEADLINE FOR PREREGISTRATION IS SEPTEMBER 27th.
More info is available from one of the conference organizers, Adele
Clark, Co-Director of the Women, Health and Healing Program of the School of
Nursing. 415-476-0694; aclarke at ucsfvm.ucsf.edu
PRESENTERS AND TITLES:
Anne Balsamo "Technologies of Surveillance: Constructing Cases of
Maternal Neglect"
Ruth Behar "Diaspora, Return and Panic: Migration Traumas Among Latinas"
Patricia Hill Collins "Wll the Real Mother Please Stand Up?: Population
Policies and the American National Family"
Marge Devault "Whose Science of Food and Health? Narratives of Profession
and Activism from Public-Health Nutrition"
Donna Haraway "The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order"
Valerie Hartouni "On Breeding Good Stock: Some Reflections on Race and
Reproduction in Herstein and Murray's Bell Curve"
Patti Lather "Naked Methodology: Researching the Lives of Women with
HIV/AIDS"
Emily Martin "The Woman in the Flexible Body"
Rayna Rapp "Women, Culture and Genetics"
Beth Richie "The Social Construction of the Moral Black Mother: Community
Policing, Criminal Justice Policies, and Women's Roles in the
Prevention of Youth Violence --or--Watch out for my Auntie
down the street. She's going to get you and me both!"
Sheryl Ruzek "Problems for the Future of Women's Health: Women's
Interests in Health Reform"
Denise Segura & Adela de la Torre - TBA
Jennifer Terry "Defining Agenda for Lesbian Health: Negotiations of
Identity, Lay Activism and Expertise"
Sharon Traweek "Acting on Images: Patiently Exploring OB/GYN in Japan,
England and the US"
Francoise Verges "Psychiatry and Postcolonialism: The Making and Unmaking
of the Colonized Self"
Nancy Woods "Mislife Women's Health: There's More to it than Menopause"
submitted by: Seline Szkupinski Quiroga
Medical Anthropology Program
UC San Francisco
seline at itsa.ucsf.edu
