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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Award-winning television producer, author, and
anthropologist Linda L. Layne, the
Hale Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, will present an address entitled "Menstrual
Suppressing Birth Control Pills: A Feminist Technology?" at the SUNY College
at Oneonta on Monday, March 10, at 7 p.m. in the Craven Lounge of the Morris
Conference Center. Admission to the event is complimentary, and members of
the community are invited to attend.
Dr. Layne's research in anthropology centers on explaining why American
women are ill-prepared for miscarriage, stillbirth, or early infant death
and why the feminist movement has not fully embraced this women's health
issue. She is currently working to develop a women's health approach to
child-bearing loss through a 10-part, award-winning public television
series, Motherhood
Lost: Conversations, which she co-produced with Heather Bailey at
George Mason University Television.
Professor Layne, who holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Middle Eastern
Studies from Princeton University, is the author of Motherhood Lost: A
Feminist Perspective on Pregnancy Loss and the "Childbearing Loss"
chapter of the new edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves. She is editor of
the award-winning books Consuming Motherhood and Transformative
Motherhood: On Giving and Getting in a Consumer Culture. She is
currently working on a volume on Feminist Technology.
Dr. Layne's presentation at SUNY-Oneonta will focus on Seasonale, a
low-dose birth control pill that regulates menstruation so that it occurs
only four times a year. She will draw on the survey responses of visitors to
the online Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health regarding their
opinions on the ability to stop menstruating indefinitely if they could
start up again easily if they wanted a child. She will also consider the
writings of advocates and opponents to show how physical and attitudinal
differences among women, as well as differences within feminism, complicate
the question of "feminist technologies."
Dr. Layne's appearance is sponsored by the SUNY-Oneonta
Anthropology Department,
Women's and Gender
Studies Department, Office of Equity and Inclusion, and Public Events
Committee. More information about the presentation is available from
Dr. Sallie Han
of the SUNY-Oneonta Anthropology Department at (607) 436-2715 or by e-mail
to hanss@oneonta.edu.
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