Description
Scientia Sexualis Considers Knowledge Production Through The Work Of Contemporary Feminist And Queer Artists Whose Work Confronts, Dissolves, And Reimagines Sex And Gender Within The Apparatus Of Science-past And Present. These Artists Address The Origins Of Modern Gynecology And Its Ties To The Torture Of Enslaved Women; The Pathologization Of The Sexual Body; The Entanglement Of Colonization With Sexual Violence; And Nonconsensual Gendering Of Trans And Intersex People. They Also Reclaim And Redeploy Scientific Discourses To Produce Speculative Technologies Of Transformation; Map Embodied And Community-based Forms Of Knowledge; And Radicalize Practices Of Healing. Addressing The Aftermath Of Our Encounters With Scientific Discourses And Institutions, Scientia Sexualis Engages The Materials Of The Clinic, The Lab, And The Biomatter Of Sex And Race; Challenges Our Sense Of What Science Is; Confronts Harm Produced In The Name Of Science; And Offers Alternative Methods Of Learning, Knowing, And Care. Introduced By Co-curators Jennifer Doyle And Jeanne Vaccaro, The Scientia Sexualis Publication Features Original Contributions By Leading Interdisciplinary Scholars-eva Hayward, Joan Lubin, Hil Malatino, Amber Jamilla Musser, Michelle H. Raheja, And C. Riley Snorton-on Key Concepts (sex, Race, Indigeneity), Materials (instruments, Specimens, Biomatter), And Disciplines (psychiatry, Anthropology, Reproductive Medicine). The Curators And Contributing Writers Are Scholars And Major Voices In Black Studies, Queer And Trans Theory, Latinx Studies, Indigenous Studies, And Queer Feminist Science Studies-- Provided By Publisher.
