Southeastern Women’s Studies Association SEWSA 2003– Gender and Technology: Research, Revisions, Policies, and Consequences, March 20-22, 2003

Southeastern Women’s Studies Association SEWSA 2003– Gender and Technology: Research, Revisions, Policies, and Consequences, March 20-22, 2003 at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. In recent years feminist scholars and activists have focused attention on the construction and consequences of technology, from bioengineered tomatoes to bioengineered babies, smart houses to smart bombs, vibrators to Viagra. Examining the gender politics of technology reveals the inventiveness and influence of women as well as the ideological or material exclusion of women from particular technological forms. Viewing technology and gender as helping to shape and define one another, feminists show technology to be a force both in perpetuating and challenging gender inequality. We seek proposed papers and entire sessions (with 3-4 papers per session) from scholars, activists, artists, and policy makers engaged with questions of gender, inequality, and technology. We understand gender to be shaped by a multitude of other social positions such as race, sexuality, class, nationality, physical ability, and age. We understand technology in the broadest possible sense. Possible Topics include medical technologies; food technologies; transportation technologies; educational technologies; globalization and technology; labor and technology; women working in technological fields; technologies of the gendered body; technologies of environment, place, and space; representations of gender and technology; feminist revisions of the history and philosophy of technology; masculinity and technology; women inventors. Send a 250-word proposal no later than Nov. 1, 2002 for a scholarly paper, multi-media exhibit, performance, workshop, or entire session, including its relationship to the conference theme, to the submission box on this conference Web site. (Please no snail-mailed submissions as our conference committee is spread out across several campuses.) Please also include a brief bio. If proposing an entire panel, include paper titles, abstracts, and bios for each presenter in addition to a proposal for the panel as a whole.