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Call For Proposals: Gender, Bodies and Technology

Event:
April 22, 2010 - April 24, 2010

Proposals are invited for an Interdisciplinary Conference

April 22-24, 2010

Roanoke, Virginia

Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2009 [more...]

Inside Design Research: A presentation about Gender & Design

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Event:
April 22, 2009

Everyone who is interested in the relation between gender & design is invited!
This talk deals with the cultural construction of gender images by design and asks for its potential to diversify gender representations.

22nd April 2009, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587 Berlin, 20th Floor: Auditorium 3 [more...]

Conference Review: We are back from the Feminist Research Methods Conference 09 in Stockholm!

It was a very unique experience to be mainly surrounded by female scientists which indeed led to a different communication culture among the participants. Conversation and discourse was more important than results!
One questions appeared again and again: How does the researcher’s perspective influence his/her research? How to treat probands like ‘research subjects’ instead of ‘research objects’?
How to establish a democratic relationship between researcher and ‘researched’? [more...]

Sexualität gleich Macht

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These: Sexualität bedeutet Macht.
Durch die kulturelle Einteilung der Gesellschaft in Geschlechter wird Macht konstruiert und aufrecht erhalten. [more...]

Emanzen

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These: Die weibliche Emanzipation ist (mit) schuld, daß sich die traditionellen, binären Geschlechtsdefinitionen weiter festigen. [more...]

Madonna und Gender

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Kann Madonna als medial vermittelte Verkörperung der Argumente Judith Butlers (vergl. "Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter") gesehen werden? [more...]