Breaking Gendered Boundaries in Our Bones and Our Crimes
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Date of Lecture
3-5-2020
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Georgia Southern University, Moveable Feast
Description of Lecture
We often hold profound expectations about gender that construct our judgements about the political and personal worth of others. This lecture will explore two distinct cases in which the rigidity of these expectations informs the way we respond to both historical and contemporary figures. Dr. Estabrook will focus on Savannah’s own Casimir Pulaski, whose remains have now been confirmed to have been buried beneath the monument in Monterey Square. Focusing on the forensic attributions of anthropologists, she will explore the complex issues that surround the history, anatomy, gender and myth-making unearthed in the bones of this Revolutionary War general. Dr. Perry, will shift the focus to contemporary issues and discuss the ways global norms about gender influence perceptions of and responses to gendered bodies. She will outline the experiences of women involved in human trafficking–discussing women as victims, perpetrators, law enforcement officers, NGO workers, and academics; emphasizing how the roles these women inhabit intersect with global norms about gender, political power, and security. Together these scholars will urge us to reconsider the boundaries of gender we have come to inhabit and see the worlds that are possible when we break them.
Recommended Citation
Estabrook, Virginia and Perry, Kate, "Breaking Gendered Boundaries in Our Bones and Our Crimes" (2020). A Moveable Feast: Celebrating the Life of the Mind. 6.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/moveable-feast/6
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Thursday, March 5, 2020, 6 p.m., The Temple Mickve Israel