|13th Annual Cultural Studies Conference|
|March 4-6, 2004|
|Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA|
From clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic church, to repressive Taliban policies toward women in Afghanistan, to same sex marriage, to debates about how gender should be determined, sex is a topic that garners lavish popular and critical attention. From Michel Foucault's examination of our garrulity about sex, to Judith Butler's theory of performativity, to Elizabeth Grosz's emphasis on the diversity of sexually specific bodies, important contemporary thinkers have brought issues of sexuality and society to the forefront of debates within cultural studies. "Sex and the Body Politic" considers the construction of sexual identity as a function of political, social, and economic forces.
We invite papers or paper proposals that explore the intersections between structures of "sex" and the discourses of law, science, medicine, history, religion, empire, and cultural taste, to name a few. We invite papers on all periods from ancient to the future.
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Some previous conferences: Property, Commodity, Culture (1997) | Violence, Incorporated (1998) | Real Culture, Reproduction(s), and Rip-Offs (1999) | Who Counts? (2000) | Family, Kinship & Cultural Studies (2001) | Late Modern Planet (2002) | Brain Power (2003).
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