Gender Breakfast
Where do feminist politics and scholarship
intersect? Developed by and for graduate students as a forum
to discuss timely topics in gender and feminist studies, the Gender Breakfast, is intended as a space for graduate
students and faculty studying women and gender to meet across disciplines in a
relaxed, collegial environment. It aims
to promote interdisciplinary community and to foster intellectual connections
with new colleagues.
Fall 2005 Speakers
Spring 2006 Speakers
Fall 2005
November 11, 2005
Ariela Dubler
Associate Professor of
Columbia Law School
Professor Dubler spoke on "Immoral Purposes: Marriage & the
Genus of Illicit Sex." Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 Supreme Course
opinion striking down Texas’s same-sex sodomy law, is part of a larger
history: that of attempts by federal lawmakers and judges to define the
genus of illicit sex, as well as its relationship to the genus of licit
sex. Professor Dubler joined us to discuss the ways in which marriage
has served as a socio-legal prism thorugh which courts have defined
sexual boundaries.
October 21, 2005
Neguin Yavari
Assistant Professor of Islam in the Religion Department
Professor Yavari spoke on Islam, Feminism and Islamic Feminism.
September 23, 2005
Alice Kessler-Harris
R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History
Kicking off the 2005-06 academic year, Professor Alice Kessler-Harris
lead an informal discussion on blending political and academic lives.
Spring 2006
Friday, February 3rd
Anupama Rao
Assistant Professor of
History, Barnard College
"The Politics of Personhood: Caste and Gender in Late Colonial India"
Anupama Rao will discuss those excerpts from her forthcoming book, 'The Caste Question,' which pertain to debates about sexuality, caste, masculinity, and family during the first four decades of the twentieth century. She will use this as an occassion to reflect more broadly on issues of embodiment and political emancipation in a comparative perspective.
Professor Rao is an assistant professor in the Barnard History department. Her scholarly interests include colonial law, violence, feminist theory, and anti-colonial nationalism. In addition to 'The Caste Question,' she is the author of 'Discipline and the Other Body,' (Duke, Spring 2006); 'Violence, Vulnerability and embodiment (featured in a special issue of Gender and History); 'Gender and Caste: Contemporary Issues in Indian Feminism'; and an essay in Subaltern Studies XII.
To download the papers to read before the Gender Breakfast, please click here for "Gender and Caste" and "Some Consolation".
Friday, March 3rd
Marianne Hirsch
Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Women's and Gender Studies
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Sharon Marcus
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Spring 2006 Workshops
Friday, February 17th
Gender Breakfast Workshop #3
Friday, April 21st
Gender Breakfast Workshop #4
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