>Subject: CFP: Lyotard and Feminist Theory
>Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 23:41:18 -0000
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>From: Grebowicz, Margret <[log in to unmask]>
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>Date: 26 February 2003 03:21
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> >CFP:
> >Gender After Lyotard
> >Postmodernism, Philosophy, and Feminist Theory
> >
> >edited by Margret Grebowicz
> >
> >
> > Papers are sought which critically address the philosophy of
> >Jean-François Lyotard from feminist perspectives. Broadly conceived, the
> >collection will address two issues: the possible uses of Lyotard's
> >epistemology for feminist thought and the importance of Lyotard's own
>work
> >on gender for contemporary feminist theory. Specific issues to consider
> >include the following:
> >--what can feminists learn from the analyses of difference, and of the
> >relationship between difference and justice, developed in Lyotard's
>oeuvre?
> >--Lyotard's engagement of psychoanalysis as read by feminist
>psychoanalysis
> >--Lyotard's political writings read from the perspectives of feminist and
> >postcolonial theories
> >--his analyses of the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, read by
> >feminist aesthetics/art
> >--his work on pedagogy read from perspectives of gender
> >--comparative analyses of Lyotard and other French postmodern thinkers
>(for
> >example, Deleuze and Foucault) as useful for feminist philosophy
> >--why does Lyotard address gender in the first place? what role does
>gender
> >play in his epistemology, ethics, politics?
> >--the possibilities for men's feminist subjectivities from the vantage
>point
> >of Lyotard's essays on gender ("Interesting", "Return Upon the Return",
> >"Marie Goes to Japan", "Can thought go on without a Body?", and others)
> >--the role of gender in his analyses of global capitalism, migration, and
> >technology.
> >
> >
> >Due date for abstracts (700-1,000 words): June 1, 2003.
> >
> >Please send or e-mail abstracts to:
> >
> >Dr. Margret Grebowicz
> >Assistant Professor of Philosophy
> >Department of Social Sciences
> >University of Houston-Downtown
> >Houston, TX 77002
> >USA
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