Anthropologist Kath Weston will be the keynotespeaker for Hamilton College's Celebrate Sexuality Week. Weston will speak onWhat Goes Around, or Portrait of the Queer Theorist as a Young Woman, onFriday, April 17, at 4:15 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn, Beinecke StudentActivities Village. The event is free and open to the public.
Weston, who received her doctorate from Stanford University, is the author ofFamilies We Choose: Lesbian, Gays and Kinship (Columbia UniversityPress, 1997) and Render Me, Gender Me (1996), in which she challengesdefinitions and assumptions about gender by weaving her own commentary with thevoices of lesbians from a variety of race and class backgrounds.
Her latest book, Long Slow Burn: Sexuality and Social Science will bepublished by Routledge this fall.
Currently, Weston is a visiting professor of sociology and women's studies atBrandeis University.
Celebrate Sexuality week will run from Monday, April 13 through Friday, April17.
