On Thursday, Feb. 20 and Friday, Feb. 21, the UF Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research presents a feminist anthropology symposium “Feminist Publics, Current Engagements: Gender, Culture, Society 40 Years Later.” The events will be held in Ustler Hall, made possible by generous support from the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere. SPOHP is also a co-sponsor of the event.
Forty years ago the landmark anthology in feminist anthropology, Woman, Culture and Society, co-edited by Michelle Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere, came on the scene, offering an ambitious cross-cultural theoretical framework for understanding women’s secondary social status, along with penetrating research analyses of women’s lives and livelihoods around the globe. Today, as the heirs to this and other pioneering works, how are we using deep insights into gender as culturally and historically situated? Beyond the intellectual currents, what social and political movements inform our theorizing? How has the cultural turn in the social sciences and humanities led feminists to ask provocative new questions and propose significant new lines of research?
These are some of the forward-thinking questions that our next spring conference in the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research will address as we continue with our Legacies series.