Latin American Science, Technology and Society: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Issues 2

Session Submission Type: Open Panel

Abstract

Latin American feminisms have addressed an array of historical, sociological, medical and other issues focused on women, gender and sexuality. These include historical and present day still–colonial enganglements of gender and sexuality with race, ethnicity, biological, pharmacological, medical and other issues about the treatment of women, men, lesbian, gay, and trans peoples. How do these issues effect government, economies, political activism and other social and cultural policies and practices? The focus is on issues IN Latin America, but also FROM Latin America. The emphasis is on making Latin America the subject of global thought, not just an object of other people’s thinking. How does and should Latin American thinking, policies and practices have effects elsewhere around the globe, and how do policies and practices elsewhere have effects in Latin America.

Sub Unit

• Papers for Open Panels / Latin American Science, Technology and Society: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Issues

Chair

• Sandra Harding

Discussant

• Laura Foster

Individual Presentations

• The Current Discourses Of Cyberfeminist Movements In Mexico-City - Mirjana Mitrovic, Freie Universität Berlin

• Trans*Forming STS: Complicating the Head/Heart Division Through Ethnographic Travels - Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent, Amsterdam Medical Center / University of Amsterdam; Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change, Linköping University

• Women, stars and science of the south. Female astronomers in Chile at the beginning of the 20th century. - Lorena B. Valderrama, Universidad Alberto Hurtado; Sanhueza Carlos, Universidad de Chile

• Metaphors of Scale and Feminist Technosciences of More-than-Human Worlds - Laura Foster

• “The imagined woman technoscientist”: reflections on feminist technoscience studies - Knut H Sørensen, NTNU, Dept. Of Interdisciplinary Studies Of Culture; Sharon Traweek, UCLA

Session Organizer

• Sandra Harding