Virtual Gender: Past Projections, Future Histories
11-14 April 1996

Conference Co-Directors: Margaret J. M. Ezell, Pamela R. Matthews

"Virtual Gender" examined the past and future constructions of gender, including those involving technology. This conference aimed to provide new understanding of how models of seeming reality generate "virtual" gender, the appearance of what is "real" or "natural" in each sex.

Seyla Benhabib, Harvard University, "Sexual Difference and Collective Identity: The New Constellation"
David Sadker, The American University, "Failing at Fairness: Gender and U. S. Education"
Carol Smith-Rosenberg, University of Pennsylvania, "The John-Wayne-ing of America: Constituting the Virtual American, 1787"

Anne Balsamo, Georgia Tech, "The Politics of Virtuality"
David Cressy, California State University, "Gender Trouble, Cross Dressing, and Cross Disciplinarity"
Robyn Wiegman, Indiana University, "Natural Born Whiteness"
Dennis Baron, University of Illinois, "Grammar and Gender and Technology: Ms, You Guys, and Gender-Neutral Pronouns in the 21st Century"
Judith Fetterly, State University of New York, Albany, "Past Projections: Imagining the Masculine in 19th-Century American Wolmen's Fictions"
Michael Moon, Duke University, "Semipublics: Sex/Space/Theory"


Review the collection of essays that resulted from this conference.