Re: space & gender

Ricardo Ottoni Vaz Japiassu (rjapias who-is-at ibm.net)
Wed, 04 Mar 1998 19:21:22 -0300

Hi Diane,

Thank you for your advises. I do apreciated them. And the
discussion too.

Rico.

diane celia hodges wrote:
>
> At 10:46 PM 3/3/98, Ricardo Ottoni Vaz Japiassu wrote:
> >Thanks for your comments.
> >
> >I think you pointed important features of the question.
> >
> >I'd like to know and read more about cultural-historical aprroach of
> >sexuality. Any sugestion?
> >
>
> Foucault's "History of Sexuality" is a good place to start, I think;
>
> also, Judith Butler's (1990) "Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion
> of Identity"
> (NY: Routledge)
>
> Teresa de Lauretis (1987) "Technologies of Gender:Essays on Theory, Film,
> and Fiction"
> (Indiana University Press)
>
> Himani Bannerji "Thinking Through" Essays on Feminism, Marxism, and
> Anti-Racism" (Toronto: Womens' Press)
>
> Bannerji's is a brilliant collection of "identity" pieces which don't
> specifically address
> sexuality, but "difference" and the conflicts of being both inside and
> outside the ideologies (cultural-historical practices) which organize kinds
> of "oppressions" or marginalization within sites of "authority"... very
> provocative thoughts.
>
> And, for folks who are thinking about bio-culturalism,
>
> Edith Cobb (1977) "The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood" (NY: Columbia
> University Press) provides what I think is the first "ecological" analysis
> of
> bioculturalism.
>
> There are certain cultural assumptions which weaken Cobb's argument,
> however, the underlying ideas in her book are extraordinary.
>
> Ricardo, i have *so* enjoyed this discussion; thank you for sharing
> your thoughts and questions,... there are indeed few spaces where these kinds of
> conversations can take place.
>
> diane
>
> "Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right." Ani Difranco
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