Anti-communal, Anti-egalitarian, Anti-nurturing, Anti-loving: Sex and the 'Irredeemable' in Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon

The work of Andrea Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon on sex and sexuality has often been posed as adversary to the development of queer theory. Leo Bersani, in particular, is critical of the normative ambitions of their work, which he sees firstly as trying to ‘redeem’ sex acts themselves, and secondly as advocating for sexuality as a site of potential for social transformation. In this article, I argue that this is a misreading of their work. Drawing on Dworkin's wide body of writing, and MacKinnon early essays in Signs, I suggest that their work makes no such case for sex or sexuality. Rather, by bringing their analysis into conversation with Halberstam's recent work on ‘shadow feminism’, I contend that Dworkin and MacKinnon's antisocial, anti-pastoral and distinctly anti-normative vision of sex and sexuality shares many of the same features of queer theory, ultimately advocating for sex as ‘irredeemable’

The role of networks to overcome large-scale challenges in tomography : the non-clinical tomography users research network

Our ability to visualize and quantify the internal structures of objects via computed tomography (CT) has fundamentally transformed science. As tomographic tools have become more broadly accessible, researchers across diverse disciplines have embraced the ability to investigate the 3D structure-function relationships of an enormous array of items. Whether studying organismal biology, animal models for human health, iterative manufacturing techniques, experimental medical devices, engineering structures, geological and planetary samples, prehistoric artifacts, or fossilized organisms, computed tomography has led to extensive methodological and basic sciences advances and is now a core element in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research and outreach toolkits. Tomorrow's scientific progress is built upon today's innovations. In our data-rich world, this requires access not only to publications but also to supporting data. Reliance on proprietary technologies, combined with the varied objectives of diverse research groups, has resulted in a fragmented tomography-imaging landscape, one that is functional at the individual lab level yet lacks the standardization needed to support efficient and equitable exchange and reuse of data. Developing standards and pipelines for the creation of new and future data, which can also be applied to existing datasets is a challenge that becomes increasingly difficult as the amount and diversity of legacy data grows. Global networks of CT users have proved an effective approach to addressing this kind of multifaceted challenge across a range of fields. Here we describe ongoing efforts to address barriers to recently proposed FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reuse) and open science principles by assembling interested parties from research and education communities, industry, publishers, and data repositories to approach these issues jointly in a focused, efficient, and practical way. By outlining the benefits of networks, generally, and drawing on examples from efforts by the Non-Clinical Tomography Users Research Network (NoCTURN), specifically, we illustrate how standardization of data and metadata for reuse can foster interdisciplinary collaborations and create new opportunities for future-looking, large-scale data initiatives

The Radical Feminist Movement In The United States, 1967-75.

It has been almost twenty years since the emergence of the women's liberation movement and yet, with the exception of Sara Evans' groundbreaking monograph Personal Politics, there has been no scholarly history of the movement. This dissertation will begin to fill the lacuna in the scholarship. It analyzes the trajectory of the radical feminist movement from its beleaguered beginnings in 1967, through its ascendance as the hegemonic tendency within the women's liberation movement, to its decline and eventual supplantation by cultural feminism in the mid-seventies. A study of this sort is especially important because radical feminism is so frequently conflated with cultural feminism--a strain which developed out of radical feminism, but contravened much that was essential to it. Radical feminism was a political movement dedicated to eliminating male dominance; cultural feminism was a countercultural movement committed to replacing male values with female values. The dissertation suggests that radical feminism was a victim not only of the economic, political and cultural constriction of the seventies and the collapse of oppositional movements in this period, but of its own theoretical shortcomings. The thesis demonstrates that the theoretical limitations of radical feminism, specifically, its contention that feminism was the transformative theory, that gender was the primary contradiction, and its belief that women were bonded together in a universal sisterhood--all of which derived largely from the left's depreciation of feminism--paved the way for cultural feminism. It also analyzes how the turmoil over sexual preference, class and elitism contributed to the ascendance of cultural feminism. The dissertation is not simply an intellectual history, a social history or a collective biography; rather it incorporates elements of all three. It is based upon both written sources--feminist and leftist publications, underground newspapers, and personal papers--and oral interviews with forty-one women who were involved in the women's liberation movement. This dissertation not only provides a much-needed history of the radical feminist movement, but illuminates the process by which one of the most dynamic social movements of the sixties was vitiated.Ph.D.American historySocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/127905/2/8621276.pd

De la ``sortie entre amis'' au ``coming out'' : commerce et contre-cultures dans les longues années soixante

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