... Tech increases social inequality, how algorithms are racist, and how math is a weapon. Do algorithms discriminate along gendered lines? Do mathematical systems harbor an essential bias? This essay shows that mathematics has long been defined through an elemental gendering, that within such typing...

...Marjorie Garber MARJORIE GARBER Spare Parts: The Surgical Construction of Gender The JVlaserati I picked up in Modena was a reconditioned model. Previously owned, the car had been lovingly rebuilt by the craftsman who had original(r made it. The guarantee uJas the same as if it had been new. My...

...George P. Cunningham GEORGE P. CUNNINGHAM "Called Into Existence": Desire, Gender, and Voice in Frederick Douglass's Narrative of 1845 11 hatever may be the ill orfavored condition of the slave in the matter of personal treatment, it is the chattel relation that robs him of his manhood...

...Eric O. Clarke Fetal Attraction: Hegel's An-aesthetics of Gender ERIC O. CLARKE Mer the meal had ended and the guest departed, Goethe asked his daughter: "Now how did you like that man?" "Strange," she replied, "I cannot tell whether he is brilliant or mad. He seems to me to be an unclear thinker...

...N. Katherine Hayles N. KATHERINE HAYLES Gender Encoding in Fluid Mechanics: Masculine Channels and Feminine Flows One of the contested issues in the contemporary social study of science is whether scientific theories are culturally encoded, particularly with regard to gender. Convincing cases have...

...Anne Emmanuelle Berger From its founding, women’s and gender studies developed along a transatlantic epistemological and geopolitical axis. An interdisciplinary field, it fostered difficult conversations among disciplines that had each developed its own conceptual language. Women’s and gender...

...Clare Hemmings As a way of trying to ensure that feminism remains accountable and inclusive, there is an institutional tendency to multiply the subjects and objects of inquiry within women’s and gender studies. While sympathetic to this impulse, this essay also recognizes that such pluralization...

...Tuija Pulkkinen This essay concerns the contingent and pluralized history of feminist institutions in academia, arguing against two commonly misconstrued oppositions: first, that between the feminist movement and feminist academic institutions; and second, that between the feminist focus on gender...

...Elizabeth Weed The essay asks what current thinking about gender has to do with the rather widespread claims that critique is finally dead. In posing that question, it asks what gender and a putatively exhausted critique have to do with the logic of capital as it appears to us in these times...

...Éric Fassin In transatlantic sex wars, gender is supposedly alien to French culture, as if it were essentially American. This nationalist cliché can be turned upside down if one takes language seriously. Gender is not only, but it is also, a grammatical term, especially in French. It is omnipresent...

... at the University of Virginia. Abram, David. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World . New York: Harper, 1998 . Adam, Alison. Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine . New York: Routledge, 1998 . Berlinski, David. The Advent of the Algorithm: The 300...

...Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel. The Freudian Subject . Trans. Catherine Porter. Stanford, ca: Stanford up, 1991 . Brunner, José. Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis . New Brunswick, nj: Transaction, 2001 . Burke, Nancy, ed. Gender and Envy . New York...

...Rosalyn Diprose This article explores the impossibility and necessity of belonging to gender, race, and place. It does so against the background of Ivan Sen's Australian film Beneath Clouds (2001), with the specificities of Australian landscape and the rural/urban divide that it captures...

... discourses and cultural movements of the 1980s. Second, it articulates the historical specificity and contingent meanings of Li’s major concept of sexual and gender differences. And lastly, it explores the theoretical and political innovation and limitation of Li’s postsocialist feminist discourse...

...Dong Limin This essay examines the ways a gender studies perspective has been applied in Chinese academic reflections on China’s socialist culture and practice during the so-called Seventeen-Year Period, which spanned from the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 to the beginning...

...Emily Waller This study places Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe in dialogue with Foucault and Freud, arguing that within the liminality of adolescence, the formation of gendered subjectivity is a condition of “reversible potentiality” in which any given act of the subject represents the radical potential...

... Self-Portrait . New York : NYU UP , 1991 . Benhabib Seyla . Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics . New York : Routledge , 1992 . Benjamin Jessica . “ The Omnipotent Mother: A Psychoanalytic Study of Fantasy and Reality...

... . Benhabib Seyla . Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics . New York : Routledge , 1992 . Benjamin Jessica . The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination . New York : Pantheon , 1988 . Bourdieu Pierre...

... Merchants: Accounting, Civility, and the Natural Laws of Gender Feminist historians (including myself) have spent a good part of the last twenty years trying to explain how and why women have been systematically excluded from equal participation in an entire range of human activities, from waged labor...

... . Veeder H. Aram , ed. Confessions of the Critics . New York : Routledge , 1996 . CLAIRE KAHANE Gender and Patrimony: Mourning the Dead Father I have to claim my father . .. [but] in order to claim him I have in a sense to expose him. (Rich 176) L the last several years there has been a notable...