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Kath Weston's Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age

Kath Weston's Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age 05 067159 WESTON (bc-t) 27/7/06 12:12 pm Page 103 Kath Weston’s Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age KATH WESTON interviewed by STEFAN HELMREICH Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age by the anthropolo- gist Kath Weston (2002) is a provocative intervention into how critical cultural theory might engage the formulations of science and mathematics in order to think anew about how temporality contributes to the formation of gender, race, sexuality, and other genres of social experience. Weston examines the visual register in which much recent gender theory has been pitched – with its atten- tion to images, gazes, maps, levels, representations and structures – and argues that an accounting of time and its contingency is crucially missing from, or merely left implicit in, such work. Rather than emphasizing the temporal emer- gence of embodiments and classifications, many recent accounts of gender offer freeze frames that arrest our sense of how time and gender constitute one another. By way of remedy, Gender in Real Time seeks to examine ‘how time travels through the study of gender’ (p. 2) and indeed through processes of gendering themselves. According to Weston, not only does http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Body & Society SAGE

Kath Weston's Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age

Weston, Kath; Helmreich, Stefan
Body & Society , Volume 12 (3): 19 – Sep 1, 2006
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05 067159 WESTON (bc-t) 27/7/06 12:12 pm Page 103 Kath Weston’s Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age KATH WESTON interviewed by STEFAN HELMREICH Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age by the anthropolo- gist Kath Weston (2002) is a provocative intervention into how critical cultural theory might engage the formulations of science and mathematics in order to think anew about how temporality contributes to the formation of gender, race, sexuality, and other genres of social experience. Weston examines the visual register in which much recent gender theory has been pitched – with its atten- tion to images, gazes, maps, levels, representations and structures – and argues that an accounting of time and its contingency is crucially missing from, or merely left implicit in, such work. Rather than emphasizing the temporal emer- gence of embodiments and classifications, many recent accounts of gender offer freeze frames that arrest our sense of how time and gender constitute one another. By way of remedy, Gender in Real Time seeks to examine ‘how time travels through the study of gender’ (p. 2) and indeed through processes of gendering themselves. According to Weston, not only does

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