Gender Studies Meeting on Wednesday, 1/25: “WHO’S THAT LADY?”

 

WHO’S THAT LADY?

 

GENDER STUDY GROUP

JANUARY 25, 2012

12:30-1:50

Long Island Room, Winnick Center

Our meeting will focus on the story of Koko Jones, an African-American Transgender woman and musician. Koko will share her stories of survival and struggle with the realities of establishing herself as a trans-woman of color.

Koko Jones was born “Kevin Michael Jones” in Teaneck, NJ in 1959. She grew up knowing much success as a musician, as she traversed the Soul music landscape playing professionally since the age of 13 with groups such as the The Isley Brothers, The Five Stairsteps, Jermaine Jackson, Whitney Houston, and many more. In 1987, she discovered that she was Transgender and has gone through the transition twice since then. Now Koko travels throughout the country speaking at LGBT events on behalf of the Transgender community.

 

                                           

EATING AND BODY IMAGE PROBLEMS: A FEMINIST-RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH

GENDER STUDIES GROUP

March 9, 2011   12:30-1:45

EATING AND BODY IMAGE PROBLEMS:

A FEMINIST-RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH

Anne Wennerstrand will discuss a treatment model for eating and body image problems that takes into account the degree to which all women are affected by and struggle with internalization of cultural gender requirements at every stage of life. We live in a culture where the pressure for bodily transformation as solution to every dilemma exists in concert with products offered for consumption towards that end (the diet industry, reality television, cosmetic surgery, commercial gyms, etc.)  In working with symptoms as challenging as eating and body image disturbances, the therapist must consider the daily bombardment by a uni-dimensional visual culture and its effect on her patient, herself and the treatment.   This cultural environment tends to cause women to disassociate from their own internal functioning as well as their authentic desires, needs and wants. A feminist-relational approach involves creating a treatment that is non- judgmental, non- authoritarian, non- hierarchical, supportive and respectful of bodies and minds of every size, meeting the patient at the right level of her own development. Ms. Wennerstrand will describe a self-attuned model of eating and living in one’s body and how it offers an opportunity for healing across the problematic spectrum of eating and body image.

Anne Wennerstrand, MS, MSW, LCSW-R is on the faculty of the Women’s Therapy Centre Institute in New York City.  She is a psychotherapist in private practice in Manhattan and Katonah, New York.  She works clinically with girls, women and families who struggle with eating and body image problems.  She has written and presented widely on the topic.

February 9th Gender Study Meeting

THE UNDERGROUND GIRLS OF KABUL: DAUGHTERS GROWING UP AS SONS IN AFGHAN FAMILIES

Jenny Nordberg is a writer and producer in New York City.  Currently, the U.S.- and foreign affairs columnist for Swedish national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, Nordberg spent several years with The New York Times’ investigative section, where she contributed as a reporter, researcher, and writer to a series of stories about the American freight railroad system that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2005.

As a producer of long-form television, she has also reported on a wide range of domestic and international topics; from Iraqi refugees and Pakistan’s nuclear proliferation, to global economics and effects of the financial crisis throughout Eastern Europe.

Her work has won several awards, including an Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) award and Sweden’s premier investigative journalism award Guldspaden.  She holds a B.A. in Law and Journalism from Stockholm University, and an M.S. from Columbia University¹s Graduate School of Journalism.

 

 

 

Gender Studies Meeting 10/27: What Women Want

Gender Study Group
October 27
12:30 – 1:45
Bldg 2 Conference Room
“What do Women Want?”

Genital Stimulation and the Birth of Psychoanalysis
 By Karen E. Starr, Psy.D.
and Lewis Aron, Ph.D.Speaker: Karen E. Starr, Psy.D. is a candidate at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and Adjunct Faculty and Clinical Supervisor at the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, Long Island University at C.W. Post. Dr. Starr is the author of Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis, and co-author, with Lewis Aron, of the forthcoming book, Defining Psychoanalysis: The Surprising Relevance of Racism, Anti-Semitism, Misogyny, and Homophobia. She is in private practice in New York City.

Gender Study Group: The Sexual Illusionist’s Final Trick: Erotic Transference and Perversion in Psychoanalysis

GENDER STUDY GROUP

 February 24, 2010

 12:30-2:00 in the Alumni Room

 The Sexual Illusionist’s Final Trick: Erotic Transference and Perversion in Psychoanalysis

 Speaker: Danielle Knafo, Ph.D.

Dr. Knafo will present the case of a man with multiple perversions who exhibited a powerful erotic transference. Discussion will address technical aspects and countertransference issues that arise when working with erotic transference.

Please read Andrea Celenza’s article, “The threat of male-to-female erotic transference,” 2006, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, vol. 54, issue 4.

Gender Studies Meeting, 11/2/2009

GENDER STUDY GROUP

November 2, 2009; 8:00 PM

GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER IN BOYS:

THE INTERFACE OF CONSTITUTION

AND EARLY EXPERIENCE

Host and Speaker: Dr. Susan Coates

205 West 89^th Street (at Broadway)

 

*Please RSVP to Danielle Knafo dknafo@liu.edu if you are interested to receive Dr. Coates’ paper prior to the meeting.