Year: 2025
Type: paratext
Abstract: Rene Almeling is professor of sociology at Yale University with courtesy appointments in American studies; women's, gender, and sexuality studies; the School of Public Health; and the School of Medicine.Using a range of qualitative, historical, and quantitative methods, she examines questions about how biological bodies and cultural norms interact to influence scientific knowledge, medical markets, and individual experiences.She is the author of Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm (Oakland: University of California Press, 2011), an award-winning book that offers an inside look at the American market for egg donors and sperm donors.Her latest book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men's Reproductive Health (Oakland: University of California Press, 2020), examines why there is so little attention to men's reproductive health and analyzes how this gap affects medical knowledge, health policy, and reproductive politics.María Magdalena Campos-Pons (b.1959, Matanzas) is a visual artist whose work addresses history, memory, gender, and religion.Her practice intermixes photography, painting, sculpture, film, video, and performance.Campos-Pons is a descendant of Hispanic and Chinese immigrants to Cuba and of Nigerians brought to the island and enslaved in the nineteenth century.She grew up with the legacy of slavery.As a child, Campos-Pons learned about Santería, a religious tradition that originated in the Yoruban nations of West Africa.Informed by the traditions, rituals, and practices of her ancestors, her work is deeply autobiographical.Invoking narratives of the transatlantic slave trade, her images and performances honor Black laborers on indigo and sugar plantations, renew Catholic and Santería practices, and celebrate revolutionary uprisings in the Americas.Campos-Pons graduated in 1980 from the National School of Art in Havana, Cuba.She went on to study painting at Havana's Universidad de las Artes (ISA).In 1988, she earned an MFA in media arts from Boston's Massachusetts College of Art and Design.In 2017, she became the Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she now resides.In 2023 Campos-Pons was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, also known as the MacArthur genius grant.Manali Desai is professor of sociology at the University of Cambridge.Her work encompasses the areas of ethnic and gendered violence, state formation, crisis, and postcolonial transformation.She was PI of the ESRC project Gendered Violence and Urban Transformation in India and South Africa.She is the author of State Formation and Radical Democracy in India, 1860-1990 (New York: Routledge, 2007) and coeditor of States of Trauma: Gender and Violence in South Asia (New Delhi:
Source: Signs
DOI: 10.1086/734349
Language: English
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4408593025