Showing posts with label sexual difference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sexual difference. Show all posts
Friday, October 29, 2010
How Can We Be Different and the Same?
direct link to video at Vimeo: How Can We Be Different and the Same?
A talk on the maternal body and sexual difference that I recorded in 2004 in Vancouver, and gave at an ARM conference at York University in Toronto in 2006. Recently I found the footage, and began playing with it in Final Cut, adding a number of filters. I am still working on the video, and will add scrolling images over the next week or so.
While I received a true 'dissing' when I presented this paper - a high level feminist maternal theorist arrived about half way through with her husband and spared no words in dismissing my work - and I never finished the degree I had intended to get for this work, I still stand behind every word. This was my last academic paper.
I was criticized for being 'essentialist' - such a, to my mind, pointless North American label whenever anyone tries to openly discuss the difficult and complex issues around the maternal body and motherhood and sexual difference. All I could respond with was that I had chosen to speak of 'an Adam and Eve' because you have to say something, offer an opinion on the reality, its difficulties.
Although I received apologies from the later-comer to my talk, I felt my position really too radical for even an organization focusing on research on motherhood.
So I will embed this on my 'birthdance' page at my website, where my work on the maternal body is.
Many thanks for reading this, and perhaps even watching.
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