| >HOME >2007 *Date: February 28, 2007 (Wed) 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. *Place: Soshikan Building# 303/304, Ritsumeikan University (Campus Access: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/eng/profile/visit_rits/index.shtml) *Lecturer: TAKAHASHI Sakino (Theory of Science Technology/Technical Translator/Translator of Donna Haraway's Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature) *Title: "Sex/gender System: 50 Years of Medical Science and Biology" *Outline of the Lecture: "Bodies" are the starting place to discuss social relations over sex (gender and principle of organization of sex). Also, since people are living creatures, all social relations have to use "bodies" as node. Discussion on politics over "bodies", that is bodypolitics is also a place in which all social theories are cross. Traditionally, biology and medical science have regarded "bodies" as main themes of discussions. Social science has been also involved and as a result, the field of "bodies" as present meaning has been recognized and the framework to discuss bidiness has been formed. We take a loot at in what frameworks the place of bodies has been discussed by biology and feminism from the middle of the 20th century to the present. *Topics to be Dealt with -Endocrinology and Formation of Sex/gender Systems in the Field of Mental Science (From the Late 1950s through the Early 1960s): Collaborative Work of Social Science, Medical Science and Biology -Forefront of the Second Wave Feminism (the Late 1960s): Construction of Recognition of "Bodies" in the Field and the Present Framwork to Discuss "Body Politics" -The Background in Which Sex/gender Systems Are Introduced as Backbone of Feminism Theories (1970s) -Transformation of Biology around the Same Period: Distributing the Time until the Early 1970s, the time from the Early 1970s to the Early 1990s and the time from the Early 1990s to the Present -How to Grasp Sexual Differences and Sexual Identity & Collaborative Work in Different Areas *References* TAKAHASHI Sakino "Bodiness and Feminism", EBARA Yumiko & YAMAZAKI Keiichi (eds.) Gender and Social Theories, Yuhikaku, 2006, Chapter 10 You can see the whole script of TAKAHASHI Sakino's "Life Science and Gender" (Quarterly Kan Vol.12(January 2003 Issue) and her personal history. http://homepage2.nifty.com/delphica/archives/sakino01.html Where to Contact: MATSUBARA Yoko (Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, E-mail: yokom@ce.ritsumei.ac.jp) UP:June 12, 2008 REV: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/gr/gsce/2007/0228.htm TOP HOME(http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/gr/gsce/index-e.htm)* |