CALL FOR PAPERS
GENDER, ETHNICITY, AND SEXUALITY:
DAUGHTERS OF THE MOTHERLAND SPEAK
SUNY STONY BROOK
April 14, 2004
The Women’s Studies Department and the Charles B. Wang Center at SUNY
Stony Brook are co-sponsoring a one-day conference entitled Gender,
Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Daughters of the Motherland Speak, to be held
at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, April 14, 2004.
The particular impetus for this project lies in Silvana Paternostro’s
book, In the Land of God and Man. In this study, Paternostro examines
the disparities in the education about and values surrounding women’s
and men’s sexuality throughout Latin America. One of the most
significant findings in this book is that though sexuality can place
limits upon a woman’s life in Latin America, it plays a different role
for the daughters of the motherland. Despite the fact that they, too,
derive from the very same culture which still practices a sexual double
standard, they have managed to re-negotiate that cultural heritage.
The study raises a number of key issues for young women today,
especially for women from ethnic, racial, and cultural backgrounds which
have traditionally practiced this sexual double standard. Although
Paternostro writes specifically of women within and from Latin America,
the focus of her examination cin this conference turns toward other
ethnic and cultural groups, as well. To that end, this conference will
ask, how have women managed (or not) to reconcile this aspect of their
cultural heritage here in the United States? How have, for example, do
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, South Asian women negotiate and
re-conceptualize their sexuality within U.S. culture? How have women
from Muslim countries negotiated and re-conceptualized their sexuality
here? What are the cultural varieties and similarities in subverting
patriarchal inequalities?
We are asking for papers, fifteen minutes in length, that address but
are not limited to the following potential topics:
* What is sexuality?
* Potential health consequences and risks from the sexual double
standard
* The presence and/or effects of violence and abuse
* Erotics and/or erotica
* Performative treatments of sexuality
* Sexual representation in various media
Please submit full papers by 2/1/04 to:
Ritch Calvin
115 Old Chem
Women’s Studies
SUNY Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3456
(631) 632-7607
Inquires to rcalvink@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Or, sumuhki@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
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