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*** Please circulate widely *** *** Sincere apologies for cross-posting *** HAU Books (www.haubooks.org) is delighted to announce the release of a “lost” classic in feminist and anthropological theory: BEFORE AND AFTER GENDER: SEXUAL MYTHOLOGIES OF EVERYDAY LIFE By Marilyn Strathern Edited with an Introduction by Sarah Franklin, Afterword by Judith Butler 362 pp. | 6x9 | 2 Figures | $20.00 USD Purchase Hardcopy Here: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo23679117.html Read Open Access Version Here: http://haubooks.org/before-and-after-gender/ *See Further Below for Book Release Event* Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern’s Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when the series for which it was written unexpectedly folded, the manuscript went into storage, where it remained for more than four decades. This book finally brings it to light, giving the long-lost feminist work—accompanied here by an afterword from Judith Butler—an overdue spot in feminist history. Strathern incisively engages some of the leading feminist thinkers of the time, including Shulamith Firestone, Simone de Beauvoir, Ann Oakley, and Kate Millett. Building with characteristic precision toward a bold conclusion in which she argues that we underestimate the materializing grammars of sex and gender at our own peril, she offers a powerful challenge to the intransigent mythologies of sex that still plague contemporary society. The result is a sweeping display of Strathern’s vivid critical thought and an important contribution to feminist studies that has gone unpublished for far too long. ********************************************** PRAISE FOR “BEFORE AND AFTER GENDER” "In Before and After Gender, Strathern writes that she 'brings writing to bear on other writing in order to shift the viewpoint.' From the beginning, she has not so much shifted viewpoints as entirely retooled their optics, making viewpoints undo other viewpoints, and here she does it for gender and all its bumptious ethnographic and conceptual kin. Relationality has always been her subject; she studies relations with relations in order to understand how doing relations works, or in a more utopian vein, might yet work to make us ask better questions. No wonder her extraordinary early manuscript on gender as model and tool for doing relations does late work needed now, when social life everywhere is in theoretical and practical trouble.” — Donna Haraway, author of Simians, Cyborgs and Women:The Reinvention of Nature "This book is more than one. It mobilizes anthropological tales to shake 1970s Euro-American feminism out of provincial fantasies of universality. It presents contrasting cases of sexual binarism to demonstrate the relevance of concepts for anthropology, not just those in use in the societies it writes about but also those it uses in writing. . . . How truly Strathernian to allow this intellectual ancestor to appear—and magically fresh!—so long after its prodigious offspring.” — Annemarie Mol, author of The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice "Marilyn Strathern’s 'lost manuscript' juggles ethnography, novels, and social criticism as it conjures a moment when the intersection of feminism and anthropology exploded with excitement. In a world in which 'theory' too often refers to almost theological dogma, here we watch a master immerse herself in the maelstrom of her material—spinning threads, casting reflections, posing comparisons—to show us how relations matter.” — Anna Tsing, author of The Mushroom at the End of the World ********************************************** SYMPOSIUM AND BOOK RELEASE EVENT FOR “BEFORE AND AFTER GENDER” Thursday, 5 May 2016, 1:00 - 6:00 pm The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, University of Cambridge Free to attend, Seating on a first come, first serve basis. Join Marilyn Strathern, Sarah Franklin, and members of HAU's editorial team in celebrating the launch of Marilyn Strathern's "Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life" (with an Introduction by Sarah Franklin and an Afterword by Judith Butler). The event will include a Symposium on "Feminist Classics Revisited" as well as the official Book Launch. Details are as follows: Symposium: Feminist Classics Revisited 4 – Nature, Culture and Gender 1-5 pm | Darwin Room | The Pitt Building | Trumpington Street This symposium revisits the classic feminist text Nature, Culture and Gender (1980) edited by Carol MacCormack and Marilyn Strathern. Contributors Sara Ahmed (Goldsmiths), Alain Pottage (LSE), Nanneke Redclift (UCL), Sarah Franklin (Cambridge), Barbara Bodenhorn (Cambridge) and Marilyn Strathern (Cambridge) will lead discussion and the event is followed by the launch of Strathern's new book. Book Launch 5-6 pm | Newton Room | The Pitt Building | Trumpington Street Reception for the release of Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life by Marilyn Strathern, edited by Sarah Franklin and with an afterword by Judith Butler (HAU Books, 2016). The event is chaired by Rebecca Cassidy (Goldsmiths). This event is cosponsored by ReproSoc, the Cambridge Department of Sociology and the Goldsmith Centre for Feminist Research. It is open to the public and has full disabled access. Seating is allocated on first come, first serve basis. All are welcome. For more information contact [log in to unmask] ********************************************** INTRODUCING: THE ANNUAL DEBATE OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL KEYWORDS (ADAK) A partnership between HAU, the American Ethnological Society, and L’Homme We are pleased to announce that three scholarly organizations and journals, all from different countries and intellectual traditions—the American Ethnological Society (AES), HAU, and L’Homme—have joined to launch a new annual event for the development of anthropological theory: the Annual Debate of Anthropological Keywords (ADAK). The aim is to hold an annual debate around keywords and terms playing a pivotal and timely role in discussions of different cultures and societies. We are pleased to launch the first debate at the 2016 AAA meetings in Minneapolis with the keyword: FAKE. The term "fake" covers a wide and timely terrain—forgery, faking it, copies, counterfeiting, make believe, frauds, parody, bullshit, fake theory, plagiarism, fake documents, and so on. Even within academia we often deal with fakes, hoaxes, and frauds (or the fear of being a fraud), and with issues of plagiarism that highlight a delicate boundary between theft of knowledge or its imitation to generate novel views. Thus imposter religious figures, fake goods, fake identities, corrupted foods, counterfeit medications, copyrights and “copy left,” can all be employed towards the service or revelation of truth. Where trust and truth have been deemed the glue of human relationships and the motor of cooperative interactions, this roundtable will question how deception and mistrust seem to produce effective, albeit opaque forms of sociality. The roundtable will be organized as follows: an introduction to the topic and organization of the debate, timed presentations by each of the debaters, and then short responses to each other’s presentations, followed by an open question and answer session with the audience. Organizers: Giovanni da Col (SOAS), Hugh Gusterson (George Washington University), Carole Macgranahan (Colorado), Caterina Guenzi (EHESS), and Cléo Carastro (EHESS) With the participation of: John L. Jackson Jr. (University of Pennsylvania) Veena Das (Johns Hopkins) Gabriella Coleman (McGill) Carlo Severi (EHESS) Alexei Yurchak (UC Berkeley) Giovanni da Col (University of London, SOAS) Graham Jones (MIT) More details on the first annual ADAK roundtable to be held at the 2016 AAA Meetings in Minneapolis will be announced soon. ********************************************** REMINDER: CALL FOR ASSOCIATE EDITORS FOR HAU: JOURNAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC THEORY (NEW DEADLINE) The editors of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory are delighted to launch our second international call for associate editors and invite scholars from around the world to join our prestigious editorial team. We especially encourage female applicants to apply. We are seeking engaged invididuals from any part of the world who share HAU’s vision and aims, to contribute their skills and passion to the long-term growth of the journal and HAU Books, and to show both leadership and vision that further the aims of the journal. All fields of competence within anthropology are suitable, and we particularly welcome applications from scholars with expertise in visual anthropology, language and politics, the Middle East, kinship, economic anthropology, and the anthropology of science. Applications are due May 10, 2016. Selection criteria, duties, and instructions for application submission can be downloaded here: http://bit.do/associate For questions on Associate Editor positions and applications, please write to: [log in to unmask] ********************************************** ~The HAU Editorial Team Download as much as you like. Circulate. Print it. Post it. Spread the News. The Gift Remains Free. 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