the SECOND revolution

Jay Lemke (jllbc who-is-at cunyvm.cuny.edu)
Wed, 07 Apr 1999 23:28:07 -0400

Reading with interest the interest in feminisms, absent differences,
critiques of desire in theories, etc.

Puzzling whether I do or do not have tits ... in various literal and
metaphorical senses ...

Free-associating the "SECOND THOUGHTS" revolution ... on xmca ... in AT ...
inverting the logic of "the second sex" (bio-logically the first, or only)
... for a Second Revolution (you pick the First) ...

OF COURSE we can't satisfactorily theorize classes or cultures without
their interdependence with sexes, genders, sexualities (and ages, and maybe
a few other dimensions) ...

and one good pathway to finding what we're missing (men always feel we are
missing something, while we project that is it women who the ones missing
something) is by pursuing those historiographically absent and historically
present women in the history of AT and the work it did and came from ...
and by asking what was missed when mostly men wrote theoretical accounts of
a practice conducted by both men and women that was no doubt far richer
than the theories as such.

I'm off to visit some (mostly male) computer science and education research
groups in Chicago. I'll catch up when I get back next week. JAY.

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JAY L. LEMKE
PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
JLLBC who-is-at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
<http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/index.htm>
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