Treating Gender and Illness Together in the Classroom

2019 ◽  
pp. 142-157
Author(s):  
Lisa Diedrich
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Health Humanities ◽  
Sexuality Studies ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
Training Research ◽  
Medical Health ◽  
The Way

With an M.A. and Ph.D. in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and with areas of specialization in medical/health humanities and disability studies, the author’s training, research, and teaching are inter- or transdisciplinary all the way down. Drawing on multiple interdisciplinary backgrounds, the author discusses ways of treating illness and disability in the classroom as women, gender, and sexuality might be treated: as categories of analysis that come into being through a multiplicity of archives, discourses, practices, and institutions. Rather than stabilize and consecrate an object as belonging to a particular field, the author is more interested in attending to the histories, methods, and political factors that bring objects and whole fields into being and sustaining or transforming them. The chapter discusses specific practical, even personal, pedagogical tactics and strategies.

scholarly journals Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moya Bailey ◽  
Izetta Autumn Mobley
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Sexuality Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
Methodological Considerations

A Black feminist disability framework allows for methodological considerations of the intersectional nature of oppression. Our work in this article is twofold: to acknowledge the need to consider disability in Black Studies and race in Disability Studies, and to forward an intersectional framework that considers race, gender, and disability to address the gaps in both Black Studies and Disability Studies. By employing a Black feminist disability framework, scholars of African American and Black Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Disability Studies have a flexible and useful methodology through which to consider the historical, social, cultural, political, and economic reverberations of disability.

scholarly journals Individuation, Sexuation, Technicity

2020 ◽  
pp. 026327642096740
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Seely
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Sexuality Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Feminist And Queer Theory

Within the context of questions raised by gender and sexuality studies about the relationship between sex and technics, I develop a theory of sexuation derived from Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy of individuation. First, I provide an overview of Simondon’s philosophy of individuation, from the physical to the collective. In the second section, I turn to the question of sexuality, outlining an ontogenetic account in which sexuation is conceived as a process of both individuation and relation that is fundamental to certain living beings. Then, drawing on Simondon’s theorization of technics in its mediating function between humans and the world, I resituate understandings of the relation between sex and technics. While each section – Individuation, Sexuation, Technicity – argues for the significance of these concepts to feminist and queer theory, overall the essay uses Simondon’s work as a new paradigm for gender and sexuality studies and calls for the invention of a sexuate culture.

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