Our February LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, February 22 at 5:30pm in Greenlaw 225 and via Zoom. We discussed Deirdre Cooper Owens’s 2017 monograph, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology from UGA Press. Specifically, we … Read more

Our September, 2021 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. Sept. 29 at 5:30pm est via Zoom. We focused on Nancy Ordover‘s 2003 monograph American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism, especially the introduction and an additional … Read more

Our April, 2021 meeting of LMCC took place on Wed. April 28 at 5:30pm est via Zoom. We focused on Kyla Schuller’s 2018 monograph The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century, especially the introduction, “Sentimental … Read more

We are planning to have our first fully-fledged meeting of the Fall 2017 semester this month! Friday, October 13 join us in HHIVE at noon for Frankenstein discussions (and queue some spooky Friday the 13th tunes). Readings will follow soon. Friday, November … Read more

*This event has been rescheduled to 2:15-3:30 this Friday! This month we will be examining transgender politics, visibility and embodiment through the work of two notable theorists: Susan Stryker and Richard M. Juang. Our readings will include Stryker’s article “My Words … Read more