AFA at the AAA 2012

2-0230

TAKING OFF THE SAVIOR CAPE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN ACTIVISM

Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology

Chair:  Cecilia De Mello e Souza (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

12:00 PM

Reworking Anthropology From the Margins: Lessons From Native Anthropology and Activism In Brazil

Cecilia De Mello e Souza (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

12:15 PM

Assisting Survivors of Sexual Exploitation & Trafficking In Cambodia: Moving Beyond Polarized Discourse to Address Complexities of Agency & Vulnerability

Tania DoCarmo (Chab Dai and University of North Texas)

12:30 PM

Queering Activist Work and Feminist Research On Violence Against Women

Aisha A Rios (Temple University)

12:45 PM

Gendered Erasure: Reclaiming Mambo Cécile Fatiman In Haitian Memory

Crystal Andrea Felima (University of Florida)

1:00 PM

The Woman In the State: Trinidadian Feminism and the State Under a Woman Prime Minister

Gabrielle Jamela Hosein PhD (University of the West Indies)

 

3-0025

ACTIVISM, ADVOCACY, AND ACADEMIA: UNDOING THE BORDERS IN FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY?

Sponsored By: Association for Feminist Anthropology and AAA Committee on Practicing Applied and Public Interest Anthropology

Organizers:  Jennifer J Patico (Georgia State University) and Susan Harper ()

 

Introductions:  Jane Henrici PhD (Institute for Women’s Policy Research)

 

Chairs:  Winifred Tate (Colby College)

 

Roundtable Presenters:  Melissa A Checker (City University of New York), Dana-Ain Davis (Queens College, CUNY) and Mark A Schuller (Northern Illinois University)

 

 

3-0105

(IM)POSSIBILITIES OF JUSTICE:  RETHINKING SEXUAL VIOLENCE, LAW, AND THE POLITICS OF VISIBILITY IN THE AMERICAS

Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology

Organizers:  Vivian A Newdick (The University of Texas at Austin) and Courtney Desiree Morris (Rice University)

Chairs:  Vivian A Newdick (The University of Texas at Austin)

Discussants:  Shannon Speed (University of Texas at Austin)

8:00 AM

Making the Liminal Visible: Addressing State Sanctioned Violence Against Native American Females

Leece M. Lee (University of California Berkeley)

8:15 AM

See How the Blood De Run: Creole Women, Sexual Violence, and the Politics of Silence On the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua

Courtney Desiree Morris (Rice University)

8:30 AM

Theorizing the Body, Visibility, and Corporeal Memory In the Struggles Against Gender Violence and for Social Justice: Guatemala As Case Study

Roselyn Costantino (Pennsylvania State University Altoona)

8:45 AM

Birth, Biopolitics and the Border: Birthright Citizenship, Marginalization and Agency In Mexican-Origin Women’s Childbirth Choices

Elizabeth N Marterre (University of Texas)

9:00 AM

To Know How to Speak:  Indigenous Women’s Activism Against Sexual Violence In Chiapas, Mexico

Vivian A Newdick (The University of Texas at Austin)

9:15 AM

Discussant

Shannon Speed (University of Texas at Austin)

9:30 AM

Discussion

3-0450

WHOSE BODY MATTERS?: GENDER, VIOLENCE, AND THE STATE

Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology 

Chair:  Valerie Cannon (Florida International University and Florida International University)

10:15 AM

Creating Proper Men: Masculinities, Embodiment and Agency in the West Bank

Maria F Malmström PhD (The Nordic Africa Institute)

10:30 AM

The Legacy of Gender Violence In Juarez: Feminicide

Itzel Yarger-Zagal (University of Montana)

10:45 AM

My Mother Wouldn’t Let Me: Female Kin and Men’s Recruitment to Armed Conflict In the Liberian Civil War

Mary H Moran (Colgate University)

11:00 AM

Unearthing Blame: Embodying Gender, Race and Violence On the West Mesa

Abigail R Adams (The College of Wooster)

11:15 AM

“the Perpetuation of ‘Damsel In Distress’ Narratives In Contemporary Media Coverage of Missing Individuals In the United States”

Valerie Cannon (Florida International University)

11:30 AM

Airing Dirty Laundry In Public: Analyzing a High-Profile Chinese Domestic Abuse Case

Jie Cui (University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh)

3-0525

ASSOCIATION FOR FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY (AFA) BUSINESS MEETING

Event Type: Business Meeting

Sponsored By: Association for Feminist Anthropology

 

Organizer:  Jane Henrici PhD (Institute for Women’s Policy Research)

 

3-0600

AT THE BORDERS OF AGENCY: MIGRATION, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, AND REGULATION

Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology 

Organizers:  Shannon Mary Ward (Wellesley College)

Chairs:  Shannon Mary Ward (Wellesley College)

Discussants:  Cecilia C VanHollen (Georgetown University)

1:45 PM

Birth, Fertility, and Migration: Fluid Boundaries Between Mustang, Nepal, and New York City

Sienna R Craig (Dartmouth College)

2:00 PM

Displaced People, Emplaced Births: Medicalized Childbirth In the Tibetan Diaspora

Shannon Mary Ward (Wellesley College)

2:15 PM

Choices Under Constraint: Maternal Request for Cesarean Sections In Taiwan

Chen-I Kuan (Academia Sinica)

2:30 PM

“My Fate Is In My Hands, but My Future Is uncertain”: Narratives of Moral Mothering Among Women Working In China’s Sex Industry

Erin E Thomason (University of California, Los Angeles – Dept of Anthropology)

2:45 PM

Cross-Cultural Conceptions of Transitional Justice In the Former Yugoslavia

Kathleen Ann Sprague (Wellesley College)

3:00 PM

Foreigners and Internationals: How Legal Status and Inequality Affect Transnational Women’s Family Planning In Geneva, Switzerland

Lindsey M Wallace (UNC Chapel Hill and UNC Chapel Hill)

3:15 PM

Discussant

Cecilia C VanHollen (Georgetown University)

 

3-0620

IN AND OUT OF BOUNDS: SEXUALITY, GENDER, CLASSIFICATION, AND CONTESTATION

Sponsored By: Association for Feminist Anthropology and Association for Queer Anthropology

Organizers:  Carole S Vance (Columbia University)

Chairs:  Carole S Vance (Columbia University)

Discussants:  Gayle Rubin (U Michigan)

1:45 PM

Trading Places: Exchanging Positionalities of “Sodomy” and “Prostitution” in  Legal Discourses and the Question of Modernity In India

Svati P Shah (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

2:00 PM

“De-Classifying Human Trafficking: Challenging the Sex/Labor Dichotomy with Victim Experience”

Alicia W Peters (University of New England)

2:15 PM

“Gay or Transgender?”: Children, Truth and Classifying Power

Sahar Sadjadi (Columbia University and Columbia University)

2:30 PM

Too Fast to Be a Woman? Issues In “Gender Verification” of Elite Female Athletes

Katrina Karkazis (Stanford University)

2:45 PM

“End Demand for Tomatoes”: The Long Half-Life of Trafficking Classifications

Carole S Vance (Columbia University)

3:00 PM

Discussant

Gayle Rubin (U Michigan)

3:15 PM

Discussion

3-0820

THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION

Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology

Organizers:  Holly A Dygert PhD (Rhode Island College)

Chairs:  Holly A Dygert PhD (Rhode Island College)

1:45 PM

Guardians of the Nation: The ‘polyteknoi’ and Fertility Politics In Greece

Katerina Georgiadis (London School of Economics and London School of Economics)

2:00 PM

Contesting Reproduction, Contesting Citizenship: Mainland Chinese “Visiting” Wives’ Struggle to Give Birth In Hong Kong

Melody Li Ornellas (University of Pittsburgh)

2:15 PM

The Cultural Politics of Family, Revisited: Mixtec Women Re-Imagining Family and Progress In Neoliberal Mexico

Holly A Dygert PhD (Rhode Island College)

2:30 PM

Turkey’s Sperm Donor Debate: Familial Anxieties and Resurgence of Eugenics

Ezgi Canpolat (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

2:45 PM

Planning Reproduction, Building Democracy and Fighting for Sexual and Reproductive Rights: Family Planning and Social Inequalities In Salvador Da Bahia (Brazil)

Silvia De Zordo (Goldsmiths-University of London)

3:00 PM

Discussion

3:15 PM

Discussion

3:30 PM

Break

3:45 PM

State Policies, Reproductive Practices, and Gendered Vulnerabilities: Notes From the Field

Dharashree Das (Simon Fraser University)

4:00 PM

Gender, Reproduction and Wealth In Post-Soviet Havana

Heidi Kristiina Harkonen (University of Helsinki)

4:15 PM

Spaces of Transformation: Mexican Immigrant Women On the Sexual Education of Their Children

Maria Cristina Alcalde (University of Kentucky and University of Kentucky)

4:30 PM

How Do Men and Women of Color Respond to a Legacy of Constrained Reproduction?: Discourses of Reproductive Worthiness In the United States

Seline A Szkupinski Quiroga PhD (Arizona State University)

4:45 PM

The Tangled Genetic Web In Pursuit of Family:  Cultures, Donors, Races, Ethnicities

Kristen Karlberg (Purchase College SUNY)

5:00 PM

Discussion

5:15 PM

Discussion

3-0900

GENDER, BODIES AND MEDICINE BETWEEN THE MARKET AND THE PUBLIC GOOD

Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology 

Organizers:  Kalindi Vora (University of California San Diego)

Chairs:  Kalindi Vora (University of California San Diego)

Discussants:  Juliet M McMullin PhD (University of California, Riverside)

4:00 PM

Discussion

4:15 PM

The Market and the Body: Reproductive Technologies & Gestational Surrogacy In India

Kalindi Vora (University of California San Diego)

4:30 PM

Problematizing Bioethical Reason:  Clinical Trials, Exclusion of Women, and the Public Good In Military Medical Experiments

Emily C Cohen (Columbia University)

4:45 PM

The Publicity of Homebirths and the Privatization of Public Health Resources: Localizing Misoprostol and HPV Vaccines In South Asia

Fouzieyha Towghi (University of Zurich)

5:00 PM

“What’s Best for the Baby”: Contesting Discourses of Cesarean Section

Chikako Takeshita (University of California, Riverside)

5:15 PM

Discussant

Juliet M McMullin PhD (University of California, Riverside)

The Market and the Body: Reproductive Technologies & Gestational Surrogacy In India

Kalindi Vora (University of California San Diego)

4:30 PM

Problematizing Bioethical Reason:  Clinical Trials, Exclusion of Women, and the Public Good In Military Medical Experiments

Emily C Cohen (Columbia University)

4:45 PM

The Publicity of Homebirths and the Privatization of Public Health Resources: Localizing Misoprostol and HPV Vaccines In South Asia

Fouzieyha Towghi (University of Zurich)

5:00 PM

“What’s Best for the Baby”: Contesting Discourses of Cesarean Section

Chikako Takeshita (University of California, Riverside)

5:15 PM

Discussant

Juliet M McMullin PhD (University of California, Riverside)

 

 

3-0910

QUEER TRANSFRANCISCO: PASTS, PRESENTS, AND FUTURES OF THE “SODOM BY THE SEA”

Sponsored By: Association for Queer Anthropology and Association for Feminist Anthropology

Organizers:  Chris Roebuck (UCSF and UC-Berkeley) and Margot Weiss (Wesleyan University)

Chairs:  Chris Roebuck (UC-Berkeley)

Discussants:  Nan Alamilla Boyd (San Francisco State University) and Eva Hayward (Duke University)

4:00 PM

Discussant

Eva Hayward (Duke University)

4:15 PM

Cross-Dressing for Empire: Gender, Whiteness, and Settlement In Bohemian Grove Theatricals

Susan Stryker (University of Arizona)

4:30 PM

Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sex In Turn-of-the-Century San Francisco

Amy Sueyoshi (SFSU)

4:45 PM

San Francisco’s Tenderloin: From “Fleshpots” to “Queens” to Trans Counter-Publics?

Chris Roebuck (UC-Berkeley)

5:00 PM

What’s Queer Now? Pansexual Bdsm In San Francisco

Margot Weiss (Wesleyan University)

5:15 PM

The Future of the Gay City

Gayle Rubin (U Michigan)

5:30 PM

Discussant

Nan Alamilla Boyd (San Francisco State University)

4-0250

TRANSGRESSING RESEARCH RELATIONSHIPS: MOVING DANGEROUSLY OR EXPLORING ALTERNATIVE MODES OF FEMINIST PRACTICE?

Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology

Organizers:  Lorraine Nencel (VU University Amsterdam) and Karin Willemse (Erasmus University Rotterdam/ ESHCC)

Chairs:  Naomi van Stapele (University of Amsterdam) and Tine Davids (Radboud Universiteit)

Discussants:  Karin Willemse (Erasmus University Rotterdam/ ESHCC), Dana-Ain Davis (Queens College, CUNY) and Tine Davids (Radboud Universiteit)

8:00 AM

Our Singing, Ourselves: Advocacy, Ethnography, Relationships, and Dagbamba Women’s Songs of Northern Ghana

Katharine E Stuffelbeam (University of California Los Angeles)

8:15 AM

Introducing One Another: Feminist Ethnography and Shared Experiences of Becoming

Matthew J Carlson (University of Minnesota)

8:30 AM

Discussant

Tine Davids (Radboud Universiteit)

8:45 AM

Landscapes of Memories: Responsible Representation of ‘narratives-In-interaction’ In An Era of Globalization

Karin Willemse (Erasmus University Rotterdam/ ESHCC and Erasmus University Rotterdam/ ESHCC)

9:00 AM

Transgressing the Feminist Epistemological Ideal of the Research Relation: Notes  From Two Different Peruvian Research Experiences

Lorraine Nencel (VU University Amsterdam)

9:15 AM

Discussant

Dana-Ain Davis (Queens College, CUNY)

9:30 AM

Discussion

9:45 AM

Break

10:00 AM

When the Native Desires the Native, What Happens to Research Ethics?

Adlina Maulod (Purdue University and Purdue University)

10:15 AM

It’s Just You and Me (and your community): Erotic Subjectivity, Power, and Race In Anthropological Fieldwork

Sidra Lawrence (College of Musical Arts)

10:30 AM

The Art of Seduction in and of the Fieldwork

Akiko Takeyama (The University of Kansas)

10:45 AM

Between Analysis and Activism In Multi-Level Research: Anthropological Engagements with Nature Conservation Governance In Uganda

Karin Berkhoudt (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

11:00 AM

“Dangers” In the Field: Politics of Gender and Ethics In the Making of Ethnographic Knowledge about Transnational Brokered Marriages In Asia

Husn-Hui Tseng (Columbia University and Columbia University)

11:15 AM

Discussion

4-0705

ANGELINA’S BOSNIA: BOUNDARY CROSSINGS OF SEXUALIZED WAR VIOLENCE IN FILM
Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology

Organizers:  Ana Croegaert (University of New Orleans) and Elissa Helms (Central European University)

Chairs:  Elissa Helms (Central European University)

Discussants:  Zeynep D Gursel (University of Michigan)

1:45 PM

In the Shadow of The Night Porter: Sex and War In Films by Two Generations of Women

Snezana Zabic (University of Illinois Chicago)

2:00 PM

Rejecting Angelina: War Rape Survivors and Representations of Ethnic Boundaries After the Bosnian War

Elissa Helms (Central European University)

2:15 PM

An Invitation to Screen War: The Gender Politics of Cinematic Violence Among the Bosnian Diaspora In America

Ana Croegaert (University of New Orleans)

2:30 PM

Crossing Authenticity: Gendered Experiences of Violence In Three Movies about the War In Bosnia

Dubravka Zarkov (Institute of Social Studies/EUR and Institute of Social Studies)

2:45 PM

Discussant

Zeynep D Gursel (University of Michigan)

3:00 PM

Discussion

3:15 PM

Discussion

 

4-0830

Workshop On Teaching Gender and Sexuality: Pedagogy At the Intersections (registration required)

Sponsored By: Association for Feminist Anthropology

 

Organizers:  Jose L Santos PhD (Metropolitan State University) and Sophie Bjork-James (CUNY Graduate Center)

 

Presenters:  Debra Curtis (Salve Regina University), Charlotte A Haney (Case Western Reserve University), Erica L Williams (Spelman College) and Jose L Santos PhD (Metropolitan State University)

4-1190

JOINT RECEPTION OF AFA, AQA, ABA, ALLA, SLACA, SANA, SAW

Event Type: Reception or Cash Bar

Sponsored By: Association for Feminist Anthropology

 

Organizer:  Jane Henrici PhD (Institute for Women’s Policy Research)

 

 

5-0035

ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES OF INCARCERATION AND ACTIVISM IN THE ERA OF MASSINCARCERATION

Sponsored By: Association for Feminist Anthropology and Society for the Anthropology of North America

 

Organizers:  Karen G Williams (Graduate Center of the City University of New York- CUNY)

 

Introductions:  Andrea Morrell (Graduate Center of the City University of New York- CUNY)

 

Chairs:  Andrea Morrell (Graduate Center of the City University of New York- CUNY)

 

Roundtable Presenters:  Rachel Herzing (Critical Resistance), Allen Hopper (ACLU of Northern California ), Karen G Williams (Graduate Center of the City University of New York- CUNY), Michelle Brane (Detention and Asylum Program Women’s Refugee Commission) and Timo Rodriguez (University of California, Berkeley)

 

5-0305

DEBATING THE FUTURE OF FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGIES: A GLOBAL CONVERSATION

Sponsored By: Association for Feminist Anthropology

 

Organizers:  Dorothy L Hodgson (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick)

 

Chairs:  Dorothy L Hodgson (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick)

 

Roundtable Presenters:  Lila Abu-Lughod (Columbia University, Dept of Anthropology), Srimati Basu (University of Kentucky), Tomomi Yamaguchi (Montana State University), A Lynn Bolles (University Of Maryland College Park) and Elaine E Salo (University of Pretoria)

5-0380

CREATING A “UNIVERSAL RIGHT”: THE CODIFICATION AND CIRCULATIOM OF “VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN”

Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology 

Organizers:  Charlotte A Haney (Case Western Reserve University) and Julia Kowalski (University of Chicago)

Chairs:  Julia L Kowalski (University of Chicago) and Charlotte A Haney (Case Western Reserve University)

Discussants:  Mindie Lazarus-Black PhD (Temple University)

10:15 AM

Feminizing Citizenship: Human Rights, the Law Against Family Violence, and the State In Rural Coastal Ecuador

Karin U Friederic (Wake Forest University)

10:30 AM

Unmarked Citizens or Dependent Citizens? Domestic Violence Legislation and Gendered Claims On the State In India

Julia Kowalski (University of Chicago)

10:45 AM

Moralizing Violence Against Women Versus the Gendered Work of Transnational Criminal Networks

Kay B Warren (Brown University)

11:00 AM

When Silencing Fails: The Subjective Absorption of State Sponsored VAW Campaigns

Charlotte A Haney (Case Western Reserve University)

11:15 AM

Intersecting Universal/Local Frames of Violence Against Women and Political Dynamics In Vietnam

Lynn Kwiatkowski (Colorado State University)

11:30 AM

Discussant

Mindie Lazarus-Black PhD (Temple University)

11:45 AM

Discussion

 

5-0425

STEPPING OUT OF BOUNDS IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD: SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN RE-WORKING NORMATIVE FEMININITIES
Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology

Organizers:  Sandya Hewamanne (Wake Forest University)

Chairs:  Jeanne Marecek (Swarthmore College)

Discussants:  Donna M Goldstein (University of Colorado)

10:15 AM

Desires, Roles, Conflicts, and Envy: A Mother and Daughter In Rural Sri Lanka

Bambi L Chapin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

10:30 AM

Inside/Outside: Sri Lankan Women’s Migration to the Middle East and the Moral Migrant

Elizabeth Frantz (London School of Economics)

10:45 AM

The Strange, Crazy, and Stubborn: Former Global Factory  Workers Contesting Feminine Behavioral Norms In Rural Sri Lanka

Sandya Hewamanne (Wake Forest University)

11:00 AM

“Suicide attempts” and Sexual Agency: Girls Challenging the Gender Order In Rural Sri Lanka

Jeanne Marecek (Swarthmore College)

11:15 AM

Mediating Feminine Aspirations In North India:  Manipulations and Meanings of the Ill Body

Jocelyn Marrow (Stanford University)

11:30 AM

Dutiful Wife and Mother?  Sri Lankan Migrant Workers In Lebanon

Monica Ann Smith (USAID)

11:45 AM

Discussion

5-0650

POLICING SEXUAL BOUNDARIES, BLURRING SEX
Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology

Organizers:  Gregory C Mitchell (Northwestern University)

Chairs:  Gregory C Mitchell (Northwestern University)

Discussants:  Denise E Brennan (Georgetown University)

1:45 PM

On Bullshit” and the Trafficking of Persons: Moral Entrepeneurism and the Fabrication of Data Regarding the Trafficking of Persons In Brazil

Thaddeus G Blanchette (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

2:00 PM

Legalizing Prostitution In Germany: Liberation or Entrenchment?

Annegret D Staiger (Clarkson University)

2:15 PM

Maintaining Borders of Heteronormality: Talking about Homosexuality In the Media and by Laymen In Postsocialist China

Tiantian Zheng PhD (State University of New York, Cortland)

2:30 PM

Policing the Borders of the Self: Women Talk about Sex, Work, and Addiction In a U.S. Urban Shelter

Susan C Dewey (University of Wyoming)

2:45 PM

A Little Less Than Kin, but More Than Kind: Sex Tourism and Queer Families In Neoliberal Brazil

Gregory C Mitchell (Williams College)

3:00 PM

Discussant

Denise E Brennan (Georgetown University)

3:15 PM

Discussion

5-0985

TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS, GENDER HIERARCHIES AND HETEROSEXUAL MASCULINITIES

Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology 

Organizers:  Eric C Thompson (National U of Singapore)

Chairs:  Eric C Thompson (National U of Singapore)

Discussants:  Krista E Van Vleet (Bowdoin College) and Steve McKay (University of California, Santa Cruz)

4:00 PM

Men In Circulation: Masculine Desires and the (Re)Making of Matrilocality In Thailand

Eric C Thompson (National U of Singapore)

4:15 PM

Emasculated and Deserted: The Unhappy Ending of Four Chosonjok- South Korean

Caren W Freeman (University of Virginia)

4:30 PM

Risky Business:  Extramarital Relations and Emergent Masculinities

Harriet M Phinney (Seattle University)

4:45 PM

From Beach-Boys Into Councilors: Desire, Gossip, and Samburu Masculinities In Kenya’s Ethno-Erotic Economies

George Paul Meiu (University of Chicago)

5:00 PM

The Crisis of Masculinity Amongst African Asylum-Seekers In Hong Kong

Sealing Cheng (Wellesley College and Chinese University of Hong Kong)

5:15 PM

Discussant

Krista E Van Vleet (Bowdoin College)

5:30 PM

Discussant

Steve McKay (University of California, Santa Cruz)

5-1010

GENDER AND NATURAL RESOURCES: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON EXTRACTIVE ECONOMIES AND COMMUNITIES
Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology

Organizers:  Nicole M Smith (University of Colorado Boulder)

Chairs:  Jessica Smith Rolston (Pikes Peak Community College)

Discussants:  Elizabeth E Ferry (Brandeis University)

4:00 PM

Mining Language: Gender Difference and Everyday Talk In Wyoming

Jessica Smith Rolston (Pikes Peak Community College)

4:15 PM

Why Women Don’t Fish: Emerging Traditions of Gender In Aceh, Indonesia

Barbara Quimby (San Diego State University)

4:30 PM

WHAT WE DON’T KNOW HURTS US: WHY CAN NATURAL RESOURCE ENDOWMENTS BE A CURSE INSTEAD OF A BLESSING?

Luke Danielson (Sustainable Development Strategies Group)

4:45 PM

Sex, Power, and Production: Masculinities and Femininities In the Context of the Tanzanite Trade, Northern Tanzania

Nicole M Smith (University of Colorado Boulder)

5:00 PM

Who’s Development Now? Resource Extraction and Infrastructure Expansion Meets Feminist Political Ecology and New Social Movements In Bahia, Brazil

Colleen M Scanlan Lyons (University of Colorado)

5:15 PM

Discussant

Elizabeth E Ferry (Brandeis University)

5:30 PM

Discussion

6-0040

DISCIPLINE AND CHERISH: INTELLECTUAL LEGACIES OF ADELE CLARKE

Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology

Organizers:  Lynn M Morgan (Mount Holyoke College) and Lauren Fordyce (Bucknell University)

Chairs:  Monica J Casper (University of Arizona)

Discussants:  Rayna Rapp (New York University)

8:00 AM

From Research Materials to Model Organisms: The Human-Animal-Technology Interface In the Reproductive Sciences

Carrie Friese (London School of Economics)

8:15 AM

Vital Risk, Vital Surveillance, and Vital Statistics: The Biomedicalization of Pregnancy In the Late 20th Century

Lauren Fordyce (Bucknell University)

8:30 AM

Biomedicalization and the Commodification of Midwifery Training In Indonesia

Vanessa M Hildebrand (Case Western Reserve University)

8:45 AM

Recollections: Mining Data In Science and Insights From Adele Clarke

Linda F Hogle (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

9:00 AM

Disciplining Potentiality:  How Moral Theologians Theorize Embryos

Lynn M Morgan (Mount Holyoke College)

9:15 AM

Discussant

Rayna Rapp (New York University)

9:30 AM

Discussion

 

6-0050

PUBLIC PRIVATES: EXPOSING INTIMACY IN NEW FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGIES OF REPRODUCTION

Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology 

 

Organizers:  Nicole S Berry (Simon Fraser University) and Rachel R Chapman (University of Washington)

 

Chairs:  Stacy L Pigg (Simon Fraser University)

 

Roundtable Presenters:  Christa C Craven (College of Wooster), Jennifer C Aengst (Portland State University), Irene Maffi (Université de Lausanne), Miren Guillo (The University of the Basque Country), Risa D Cromer (City University of New York), Nicole S Berry (Simon Fraser University) and Rachel R Chapman (University of Washington)

 

6-0165

WORKING WOMEN, WORKING MEN: GENDER, WORK AND AGENCY

Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology

8:00 AM

Domesticating “Man”: What the Feminization of the Ideal Husband Means for the Construction of Woman-As-Other

Elexis Ellis (University of Notre Dame and University of Notre Dame)

8:15 AM

A Badge of “Upper-Classhood”: the Au Pair As a Status Symbol

Anna Kuroczycka-Schultes (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

8:30 AM

“Baskets Cannot Send the Children to School”: The Production and Marketing of Women’s Work In Botswana

Frances J Riemer (Northern Arizona University)

8:45 AM

Gender, Academic Blogging, and Virtual Ethnography

Vibha Gokhale (Rice University)

9:00 AM

My Case Is An Exception: Women On Career Track In Japan and Latvia

Aivita Putnina (University of Latvia)

9:15 AM

Sex, Gender, and Sexuality In the U.S. Army: Comparative Views On the Ground Combat Exclusion Policy for Women and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

Margie Serrato (Texas A&M University)

6-0320

BIRTH, RESISTANCE AND THE RE-FORMATION OF MOTHERHOOD IDENTITIES IN THE UNITED STATES: TRANSGRESSING BORDER ZONES
Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology

Organizers:  Melissa Cheyney (Oregon State University) and Courtney L Everson (Oregon State University)

Chairs:  Melissa Cheyney (Oregon State University) and Courtney L Everson (Oregon State University)

Discussants:  Robbie E Davis-Floyd (University of Texas Austin) and Paul Burcher (Alden March Bioethics Institute)

10:15 AM

“Lost Cause” Mothers: Stigma, Power, and Resistance In the Performativity of Adolescent Motherhood

Courtney L Everson (Oregon State University)

10:30 AM

Birthmothers’ Narratives of Relinquishment: Gender Subversion and Contested Motherhood

Susanna C Snyder (Oregon State University)

10:45 AM

Transnational Adoption: Navigating New Geographies of Motherhood and Kinship

Jamie L. Petts (Oregon State University and Oregon State University)

11:00 AM

Homebirth Performativity, Slippage and Contested Motherhood In the United States

Melissa Cheyney (Oregon State University)

11:15 AM

Discussant

Robbie E Davis-Floyd (University of Texas Austin)

11:30 AM

Discussant

Paul Burcher (Alden March Bioethics Institute)

6-0595

“This BRIDGE CALLED MY Self”: POLICING BORDERS, POLICING BODIES.
Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology

Chair:  Susan Harper (University of North Texas)

12:15 PM

Self As OTHER In Order to Belong: Afghan Immigrant Women and the Faultlines of Globalized Multiculturalism

Christina W. O’Bryan (University of Oregon and University of Oregon)

12:30 PM

Iranian Bodies That Matter: The State and Its Transborder Citizens

Afsaneh Kalantary ( and )

12:45 PM

Exiled to the Gender Borderland: Gender Identity Disorder

Robyn Beck (University of North Texas), Susan Harper (University of North Texas) and Jennifer Way (University of North Texas)

1:00 PM

Turning Cross-Dressing Into a New Orthodoxy? Prayer Shawls, Gender and Jewish Boundaries In a French Synagogue

Beatrice de Gasquet (Paris Diderot University)

1:15 PM

Seeking Status Through Body Talk

Theresa M Preston-Werner (Northwestern University)

1:30 PM

I Am Queer Because I Am Armenian: The Ethnosexual Frontiers of Diasporic Difference

Nelli Sargsyan-Pittman (State University of New York at Albany)

6-0600

MOTHERLAND/FATHERLAND: GENDER AND THE STATE

Reviewed By: Association for Feminist Anthropology 

Chair:  Theresa Thao Phuong Pham (University of Maryland)

12:15 PM

At the Crossroads of the Tradition and the State: Kurdish Rural Women’s Dilemma In Turkey

Feyza Burak Adli (Brandeis University and Boston University)

12:30 PM

“Inept Dads and Donor Moms: Adoptive Patrimony and Value In Elephant Conservation In Cameroon”

Amy Hanes (Brandeis University)

12:45 PM

Transnational Tribulations: Moroccan Immigrant Women In Spain

Theresa Thao Phuong Pham (Columbia Univ and University of Maryland)

1:00 PM

“about Men Who Left and Women Who Came”: Gender and Migration Between Yemen and the Horn of Africa

Marina de Regt (International Institute of Social History)

1:15 PM

The Reproductive Bodies of Transnational Women: Chuukese Reproduction In Guam

Sarah A Smith (University of South Florida and University of Guam)

1:30 PM

The Case of Seaweed Farming In Zanzibar: Gender, Globalization, and the Increasing Gender Gap

Angela R Demovic (Wichita State University)