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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Johnson, Colin Robert. "Columbia's Orient: Gender, Geography and the Invention of Sexuality in Rural America," Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, December 2003.
This dissertation addresses two separate but interrelated aspects of the history of sexuality in non-metropolitan America between 1900 and 1945. First, it considers how men and women living in small towns and rural areas gradually came to share a common sense about the nature and meaning of sex and gender with others nationwide. Second, it demonstrates that this process - the geographic expansion of what Michel Foucault has called the “discourse of sexuality” - occurred unevenly across the American landscape, and in conflict with other contemporary sex and gender ways.
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