Consuming (Gay) Fatherhood ELLEN LEWIN Department of Anthropology University of Iowa
Thursday, February 4 ~ 5:30 p.m. ~ Garrison Theater
Ellen Lewin is the author of Gay Fatherhood: Narrative of Family and Citizenship in America (2009), as well as other books. She has completed studies that focus on low-income Latina immigrants in San Francisco, lesbian mothers, and lesbian and gay commitment ceremonies in the US. As a scholar working at the juncture of feminist, cultural, and medical anthropology, Lewin's work has long concerned the ways in which women make sense of the multiple identities they derive from ethnicity, race, and class, sexual orientation, and maternal status.
In lesbian and gay studies her work has focused on the construction of community in American cultural contexts, and, in response to recent debates in feminist and queer theory, to devising more nuanced understandings of concepts of resistance and accommodation. Lewin's work in both feminist anthropology and lesbian and gay studies has also led her to write about questions of ethnographic representation in relation to both gender and sexual orientation. She has also maintained an active interest in women's experience in the health care system, particularly in terms of the ways in which patients and providers negotiate access to reproductive care.
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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