Gender Studies and Body Politics Session 3 | The New School

Session 3 from "No Longer in Exile: The Legacy and Future of Gender Studies at the New School"

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This conference that celebrates the return of a Gender Studies Program to the New School! Inspired by distinguished visitors from all over the world, students and faculty explore this interdisciplinary field's history, its changing boundaries, and its current cutting edge.
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Judith Jack Halberstam, Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity and Gender Studies, University of Southern California. Prof. Halberstam focuses on a range of directions in which Gender Studies has traveled: queer theory, popular culture, visual culture, sub‐cultures and the politics of the body.

EUGENE LANG COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS | http://www.newschool.edu/lang

*Location: Theresa Lang Center, 55 West 13th Street.03/27/2010 2:15pm-2:45pm

Category:

Education

Tags:

• The New School
• Gender Studies
• New School University
• New School
• Interdisciplinarity
• Judith Jack Halberstam
• Queer Theory
• Popular Culture
• Visual Culture
• Sub‐cultures
• Body Politics
• Sexuality

[labsencedumythe]

@devilwhisper4 If you have not yet read The Telephone Book by Avital Ronell, then I assume you probably don't understand how technology coincides with a certain eye liner of thought in feminism. In any case, it takes quite a long time to extrapolate from that extremely long and dense argument, so why don't we just assume that since Lady Gaga went to NYU and Avital Ronell teaches at NYU, the two maybe met before Gaga went big?

[newport433]

what total bullshit

[Krzysiek0015]

hey can someone write me a summary of this one?

[mylovecure]

Brilliant!

[brandicebrandice]

I really love this. Hope there is another one next spring - and I hope Judith is invited back.

[cromagnonmonster]

I really wish she would have had more time to expound on this.

[Aprinsa]

@devilswhisper4 Yeah, I didn't get it. It sounded like it was going to be really interesting, but I was like either I'm really dull/ignorant, or this is kind of lame. I don't think I got much if anything out of this talk... even the introduction really wasn't saying anything I didn't hear in Intro to Women's & Gender Studies.

[IntrepidStranger]

This kid has potential.

[devilswhisper4]

She came to my campus this past semester and talked about her Shadow Feminism theories and starting a little bit with Gaga. But I didn't really get the connection with Gaga and "Pheminism" either because she didn't really go into it that much. If anything try and find something where she describes her "Shadow Feminism" and try and figure that one out, and it's ridiculousness as well.

But I will say her attempt to connect Gaga with feminism based on telephones and communications is a big stretch

[talleq]

Maybe I missed something, but I watched all 30 minutes, and I still fail to see how Lady Gaga has anything to do with feminism -- oh, sorry pheminism -- or even how she made an argument for it. Also, not into use of the word "bio," because it implies that trans men and women are not Real Men/Women (tm). Unimpressive effort.