Month: March 2011

[Event] How to Do Things with Neurons by Dr. Elizabeth Wilson

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How to Do Things with Neurons: Antidepressants, Suicidal Ideation, & Feminist Theories of Mind-Body

A Talk by Dr. Elizabeth Wilson, Women’s Studies, Emory University

When: Monday, March 28, 2011

Time: 11:30 am – 1 pm

Place: 323 Conklin Hall, History Seminar Room

Elizabeth Wilson is one of the country’s leading feminist scholars on the intersecting discourses of biology, psychoanalysis, evolutionary theory and gender. She is the author of Feminism and the Neurological Body (Duke University Press) and Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition (Routledge), and most recently, Affect and Artificial Intelligence (University of Washington Press). Currently she is engaged in a feminist analysis of biomedical theories of depression.

Refreshments will be served.

 

[NYTimes] The Hidden Victims of Wartime Rape by Lara Stemple

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OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Lara Stemple

Published March 1, 2011

 

AS disturbing new reports of male rape in Congo made clear, wartime sexual violence isn’t limited to women and girls. But in its ongoing effort to eradicate rape during conflict, the United Nations continues to overlook a significant imperative: ending wartime sexual assault of men and boys as well.

Sexual violence against men does occasionally make the news: the photographs of the sexual abuse and humiliation of Iraqi men at the Abu Ghraib prison, for example, stunned the world.

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