Re 3: What is wrong with parents!!!!!!

From: Linda Purrington (lpurring@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Jun 01 1999 - 16:24:59 EDT


But that WAS a parent asking that question. And a responsible one, too;
an activist. It seems too simplistic to raise the call for "Let's all
take responsibility" when in fact girls and women are socialized to take
that responsiblity anyhow.

For example, when girls get a poor grade, they tend to feel it was their fault;
boys tend to feel it was poor teaching or poor team support.[Notice the missing
comment here.lp]

Should rich countries say to poor countries, "Let's all take
responsiblity for trashing and for cleaning up the world"? It's an
interesting question of ethics,isn't it? Maybe someone would like to
pursue it and similar questions of educational gender ethics at the
following conference:
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CALL FOR PAPERS
GENDERING ETHICS/ THE ETHICS OF GENDER

AN INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
23 - 25 JUNE 2000

CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY GENDER STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

Recent years have seen a growing interest in issues of ethics
within feminist scholarship. As faith in the grand narratives
and political projects of modernity has faltered, there has been
a turn towards situated, contingent ethical frameworks. Both the
philosophical basis and the political contours of these emerging
frameworks are the subject of intense debate among feminists.
Developments in science and technology raise new ethical
dilemmas, and the demands of subaltern groups disturb old moral
certainties.
Across a wide range of disciplines questions of ethics are taking
centre stage. This conference will be the first major
international, interdisciplinary feminist conference in the
United Kingdom to address these issues.

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Keynote Speakers include:
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Seyla Benhabib, Harvard University (USA); Cynthia Cockburn, City
University (UK); Lynette Hunter, University of Leeds (UK); Grace
Jantzen, University of Manchester (UK); Sabina Lovibond,
University of Oxford (UK); Lois McNay, University of Oxford (UK); Selma
Sevenhuijsen (University of Utrecht, Netherlands); Joan Tront
Hunter College, CUNY (USA); Nira Yuval-Davis, University of
Greenwich (UK).

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We welcome short papers for parallel
sessions on a range of themes including:
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G e n d e r and moral subjectivity; the ethics of science and
technology; bodily integrity; the new ethics of the public
sphere; religious traditions and gender ethics; social policies
and normative frameworks; intimate ethics; gender, reason and
rationality; representation and ethics; violence, war and ethics;
human rights, universa sm and particularism; agency, autonomy and
ethics; the ethics of sex; gender, nature and animals; feminist
ethical histories - abolitionism, peace, prostitution, sexual
violence; the ethics of the market; postmodernism, ethics and
politics; the ethics of ace and space; ethics and the politics of
difference; alternative moral communities - historical,
fictional, utopian.

Send 200 word abstracts by 1 February 2000 to:
Sasha Roseneil and Linda Hogan
Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK
Email: gender-studies@leeds.ac.uk

For more information, visit our website:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/gender-studies

---------------------forwarded by Linda Purrington, Title IX Advocates,
lpurring@earthlink.net



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