GEXcel Theme 2 (LiU/ÖU) will give several seminar series this Autumn. Open Seminars (together with Tema Genus, LiU), a GEXcel mini-conference 20th November, a GEXcel symposium 2 December, and the GEXcel internal seminars. If you wish to attend the conference and the symposium please contact Malena Gustavson, Email: malena.gustavson@liu.se
GEXcel calendar
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Seminar Series Autumn 2008
Categories: Activity
Time: 08/28/2008 - 13:15 - 12/04/2008 - 17:00
Location: Linköping University, T-building
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Symposium: Men, age and embodiment: Power, hegemony and deconstruction
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GEXcel Conference “Men and Masculinities, Moving On! Embodiments, Virtualities, Transnationalisations”
Time: 12/05/2008 - 09:00 - 01/20/2009 - 18:00
Location: Linköping University 27-29 April 2009
GEXcel Theme 2 Conference – Call for papers and participation
“Men and Masculinities, Moving On! Embodiments, Virtualities, Transnationalisations”
GEXcel’s current Theme “Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities” invites junior and senior scholars to apply for a workshop conference 27-29 April 2009.
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New invitation to apply for GEXcel visiting fellowships
GEXcel Theme 4 & 5 "Sexual Health, Embodiment and Empowerment. Bridging Epistemological Gaps". Apply before January 20, 2009
GEXcel news
GEXcel Seminars this Autumn
October 16 | 0 comments
Sheila Jeffreys, Toni Calasanti and many more will visit GEXcel Theme 2 in November and December. If you wish to hear them talk, you can find out where and when in our seminar series programme.
Download the Work in Progress Report from the Örebro Conference
December 04 | 0 comments
This fourth work-in-progress report comprises short summaries of most of the presentations given at GEXcel’s first research conference, which took
place at Örebro University on May 22-25, 2008.Invitation to apply for visiting fellowship
August 26 | 0 comments
Invitation to apply for a GEXcel visiting fellowship is announced. The research theme is "Deconstruction the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities" (Theme 2), directed by Prof. Jeff Hearn, at Department of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden.
Apply before October 14, 2008 (for Spring 2009).Read the work-in-progress report from GEXcel's spring seminars
August 15 | 0 comments
This is GEXcel's third work-in-progress report and it presents the proceedings from the research carried out by GEXcel Visiting Fellows Eudine Barriteau, Kimberle Crenshaw, Ann Ferguson, Stevi Jackson and Xingkui Zhang during their stay at Örebro University in spring 2008. The work is part of GEXcel’s first theme, Gender, Sexuality and Global Change.
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Photos from Theme 1 Conference on Gender, Sexuality and Global Change
May 27 | 0 comments
Visiting Fellows hold seminars at Örebro University
March 19 | 0 comments
On April 24-29 Eudine Barriteau, Ann Ferguson, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Stevi Jackson and Xingkui Zhang, all GEXcel Visiting Fellows, hold open seminars at Örebro University. Click here for schedule and abstracts.
International Conference: The War Question for Feminism
February 21 | 0 comments
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(What's this?)Jackson, Stevi, Professor
By Stine Adrian on 28 Aug | 0 comments
Stevi Jackson is Professor and Director of Centre for Women's Studies at University of York, UK.
GEXCEL PROJECT
Materialist Feminism, the Pragmatist Self and Global Late Modernity
For some time I have been arguing that a materialist feminist approach to gender, sexuality and heterosexuality has to take account not only of structural inequalities, but also everyday practices, meaning and self/subjectivity. In this paper I will focus on the self, developing the argument that the pragmatist thought of G. H. Mead might provide a way forward.
This tradition has had little influence among feminists, despite the historical association between pragmatism and first wave feminism in the USA. Here I argue that Mead’s conception of the self as process and his emphasis on its sociality, temporality and reflexivity might be fruitful for feminist analysis.
Reflexive self-hood is associated in recent theory with late-modern, individualised projects of the self (e.g. Giddens). This over-emphasis on individualisation has been contested by a number of feminists, particularly in relation to its alleged impact on intimate relationships (e.g. Jamieson, Smart). A return to Mead’s insistence on the sociality of the self offers us critical purchase on these debates and potential insights into constructions of gendered and sexual self-hood in late modernity, linking the self to social practice and the actualities of everyday life.
In focusing attention on the social conditions of and for reflexivity it might also help in critiquing the universalising ethnocentrism of theories of late modernity. Western societies no longer have a monopoly on modernity – the different modernities that have emerged in East Asia, for example, call into question western assumptions about the “essential” characteristics of the modern self. Drawing on scholarship from and about East Asia I will suggest that locating the reflexive self in social context enables us to consider constructions of self beyond western society and western conceptions of modernity, while also subjecting western assumptions to critical scrutiny.



