Jacquelyne Luce
Mount Holyoke College, Gender Studies, Faculty Member
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In 1999 I interviewed a 29 year old woman, Nora, in a small northern Canadian city about her thoughts, plans and expectations about getting pregnant. Although she had tried to get pregnant before and was still hoping to, she had gone back... more
In 1999 I interviewed a 29 year old woman, Nora, in a small northern Canadian city about her thoughts, plans and expectations about getting pregnant. Although she had tried to get pregnant before and was still hoping to, she had gone back to university and had decided to put the plans to become pregnant on hold. During the conversation, I
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In this article, I draw on research carried out in Europe, primarily in Germany, on patients’ and scientists’ perspectives on mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRTs) in order to explore some of the complexities related to collective... more
In this article, I draw on research carried out in Europe, primarily in Germany, on patients’ and scientists’ perspectives on mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRTs) in order to explore some of the complexities related to collective representation in health governance, which includes the translation of emerging technologies into clinical use. Focusing on observations, document analyses, and interviews with eight mitochondrial disease patient organization leaders, this contribution extends our understanding of the logic and meanings behind the ways in which patient participation and collective representation in health governance initiatives take shape. My findings highlight the ways in which a commitment to a global mitochondrial disease patient community and a sense of patient solidarity influence expressions of support with regard to legalizing mitochondrial replacement techniques. My analyses illustrate how normative practices and expectations of participatory governance potentially foreclose opportunities for sustained collective patient engagement with the complex ethical, social, and political dimensions of emerging technologies and may silence diverse and potentially dissenting embodied and lived responses to the prospects of particular technological developments.
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At the outset of Gender in Real Time Kath Weston invites the reader to join her on a trip through spacetime. While the offer of a journey to be taken by turning the pages of a book is a narrative convention invoked by many, and surely the... more
At the outset of Gender in Real Time Kath Weston invites the reader to join her on a trip through spacetime. While the offer of a journey to be taken by turning the pages of a book is a narrative convention invoked by many, and surely the trope of journeys to and of gender and sexuality is well documented in Weston’s own previous work (1991, 1996), this is not a tokenistic invitation forgotten by page 10. Weston’s compelling presence throughout the book provides a sense of companionship: this journey may be challenging and sometimes awkward, but reading Gender in Real Time is an opportunity to walk through these ideas with the past, future, and “now” of and for gender studies in mind. In the preface, Weston advises that those “wellequipped with theory” might want to skip the introduction and head straight for the essays. I wouldn’t; the introduction enacts a wake-up call. As she points out, while “publications on gender are flourishing” there seems to be a sense that “feminist scholarship . . . has passed its glory days” (p. 1). Critical questioning that addresses the new and old time/frames in which life is lived, gender is analysed, and theory imagined is a necessary task. What exactly is it that is flourishing? “What the Cat Dragged In” critiques a timeless vision of gender, emphasizing the inextricability of temporality from spatiality and the need to think in terms of spacetime. Yes, perhaps many of us have similarly pondered the multiple paradoxes of gender “liberation,” having heard younger (and older) generations exult in contemporary equalities and something called post-feminism. Weston’s introduction to this collection puts these thoughts into theory. “Unsexed” provides a thorough and thought-provoking critique of the analytic enumerating strategies employed in gender studies as a means of disrupting and destabilizing a naturalized two-gender/two-sex world. Weston introduces the concept of “unsexed” to reconfigure the possibilities afforded by gender studies and critical analyses of social and gender relations. For her “unsexed” does not mark a new position; rather, it is
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Converging technologies (CTs) refer to the synergism of nano, bio, info and cognitive sciences and technologies (Roco and Bainbridge 2002) and, relatedly, knowledge systems that “enable each other ...
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Page 1. cquelyne Luce BEYOND EXPECTATIO Lesbian/Bi/Queer Women and Assisted Concepts Page 2. Recto Running Head i BEYOND EXPECTATION: LESBIAN/BI/ QUEER WOMEN AND ASSISTED CONCEPTION WORKING ...