Gender and Intersectionality in Science, Technology, and Medicine, Historical Perspectives

We encouraged proposals that interrogate the multi-agent histories of women, gender and sexuality in science, technology and medicine, with particular attention to the roles played by constructions of race/ethnicity, class, and further categories that impacted personal and professional lives in a range of geographical and temporal contexts.

Historiographical traditions in studies of women and gender in science, technology, and medicine have offered frameworks within which analyses of individual careers, networks of people, material objects, and ideas promote a more inclusive history of science, technology, and medicine. Through this conference we seeked to ask how the lens of “intersectionality” can further the agenda of inclusivity. We especially encouraged proposals that consider institutional and geographical contexts beyond the academies of the North/West, in medical, government, NGO, civic, industrial, and corporate institutions. We encouraged analytical approaches that take into consideration the social and cultural situations of subjects and bring into focus feminist activism, bodies, emotions, and queer identities, among other themes.