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Call for Papers
Biomedicine's Silences About Gender & Sexuality
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting
Vancouver, 2-4 Nov 2006
See http://www.4sonline.org
We need 1-2 participants and we'll be submitting the session proposal the last week of March. We will only need 250 word abstracts, not full papers, at this point.
Session Title: Biomedicine's Silences about Gender & Sexuality
A great deal of productive energy has been used to explore medicoscientific epistemologies, that is how science and medicine know what they know and how that knowledge is made. This panel explores a silence produced by this focus; namely, how or why science and biomedicine 'don't know' and 'how
knowledge is not made.' We point not to an absence of knowledge, but to the production of knowledges? absences as the effect of sociopolitical debates and struggles. This panel explores how the culture of biomedicine produces and maintains silences, including ignorance, about gender and sexuality
through deliberate or inadvertent delay, oversight, disinterest, strategy, confusion, neglect, or suppression. Although some silences arise from complex and historically situated assumptions about gender and sexuality, others are actively produced. Panelists explore how and why varied forms of
knowledge about gender and sexuality have or have not come to be, how these silences are understood and explained, and the sequelae of their production.
Examples we explore include: the silence about the role of the clitoris in sexual sensation which allows clitoral reduction surgery to be performed on intersex infants; the silences and multiple effects produced by narrow medicopsychological understandings of gender variant children; [other paper
topics]
Conference Theme Description:
This year's theme is "Silence, Suffering and Survival", and it is designed to explore the overlooked spaces, boundaries, actors, networks, and artifacts of science and technology. We welcome papers and panels that address questions about the silences of silencing, unintended consequences, and
persistence in science, technology and STS. The topic is meant to open up and stir discussion about theorizing in areas we may have overlooked such as the process of secrecy under which processes of silence are often conducted. Possible topics might include the science and technology of slavery,
disability, survival, warfare, peace, and quantification.
Discussions might address de-moralization and re-moralization within science, technology and STS, the sort of silence/noise created by technology/science, and how technology/science create and alleviate suffering and/or survival. This could include processes of survival that are often off the
record, such as workarounds, ?older ways of knowing?, older (non-scientific) ways of knowing, and ??
Please contact us Karl Bryant [log in to unmask]; Katrina Karkazis [log in to unmask]
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