Abstracts are sought for a panel titled 'Intimacy of War and Warring Intimacies' to be held at the Feminist and Women's Studies Association (UK & Ireland) 18th Annual Conference, Aberdeen, 9-11 September 2005. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/womens/conference.htm
Intimacy of War and Warring Intimacies: Nations, Bodies and Borders
This panel seeks to explore the complex relations between bodies and nations, by looking at the interplay of violence and intimacy at times of military conflict. How is reproduction militarized? How can violent acts be imagined as sexy? What are the effects of war and national conflict on intimate relations? How are national borders gendered and sexualized?
We are looking for papers that employ feminist, queer or post-colonial perspectives, focusing on one (or more) of the following themes:
* Theoretical exploration of the relations between bodies, body parts and nation
* The effect of war and national conflict on intimate relations
* Various interpretations of the intimacy of militarism
* Sexuality and nation
* Reproduction and war
* Terrorism and gender
* National borders
* Borders of acceptability
* Queering national violence
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About the panel organisers:
Michal Nahman is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University and has recently completed her PhD there. Her doctorate traces Israeli transnational egg donation among Jewish and non-Jewish Israelis, focusing on the intersections between national violent conflicts and the (re)production of bodies. This research is conducted at the interface of feminist anthropology, feminist technoscience studies and post-colonial theory.
Adi Kuntsman lectures part time in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University where she is also a third-year PhD student. Her research on the Russian-speaking GLBTs in Israel explores the relations between nationalism, ethnicity and sexuality and the ways they constitute an on-line community. Adi's project brings together anthropological and media research on violence; post-colonial and feminist theorizing of nation and nationalism; and gay and lesbian studies.
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