Henry S. Rubin | |
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| Born | 1966 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Sociologist |
| Employer | Quincy College |
| Known for | Transsexual studies |
Henry S. Rubin (born 1966) is an American sociologist known for work on transsexualism.[1]
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Henry Alex Rubin: Is Technology Disconnecting Us?
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Disconnect is three different stories that were pulled right out of the headlines and dramatized and then threaded together, you know, to create an emotional thriller. It's about the way that technology -- all these screens in our lives can bring us closer and then can also keep us farther apart from each other. And the movie's not just about technology, it's also about the way in which we communicate with each other. About how people talk to each other. And that was very interesting to me and very important to me to explore the way in which we communicate. And, to me, ultimately the movie's much more about the power of human communication than about technology. Technology is neither good nor bad. It is a reflection of us, you know. Technology puts -- makes bombs and it can put us on Mars. I've met people who are very distractible people who were always on their phones. They were distractible people to begin with. And I've met wonderfully calm and wise people who keep their phones in their pockets, and especially during dinner. And those were calm and centered people. So I don't think technology makes us do anything. I think it's our personalities that are, you know, expressed through all these devices that we have. And that's one of the things the film tries to explore. We've never been able to be as close with all these people everywhere in our lives on different continents before as we have now. And that's very exciting. But when you are connected to thousands of people, it's hard to find time for the people that you really want to connect with, you know. So that's just one of the ways in which the duality of technology affects, you know, our attention span. I mean, we've never been in the history of mankind connected with so many people. We've never been asked to focus on so many different things until this time -- right now. Now we are, you know, it is so easy to talk to 200, 300 people in a day. So it's an exciting time I think for us humans. But with it comes... That was Samantha's phone that just went off and gave us a little interlude. It was. But I think it's really exciting. You know, I love technology. I'm excited that I was alive when the Internet exploded. This is not an anti-technology movie at all but it's asking questions that I think everyone is asking every day. How much time do you spend on the Internet? Or how much time do you spend on your phone? How much time do you spend connected with those hundred people as opposed to those hundred people, you know. Who do you really give your time and your attention to? These are decisions we have to make now every day whereas, you know, 10, 20 years ago we didn't have to make those decisions, you know. We just sort of hung out with whoever was in front of us.
Early life and education
Rubin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988 from University of California, Santa Cruz and a master's degree and Ph.D. in sociology from Brandeis University in 1996.
Career
After lecturing at Harvard University from 1996 to 2000, Rubin held one-year assistant professorships at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 2000 and Hamilton College in 2001. He was appointed at Tufts University in the Media & Communications department from 2002-2005, working as a research analyst at Harvard University during that time. Following a one-year position as programs coordinator at Colleges of the Fenway in 2005, Rubin took a position as an instructor at Quincy College in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 2007.
Rubin's work explores the political tensions that emerge from differing worldviews and identities within the LGBT community.[2]
Rubin is known for arguing that the most meaningful division is not between the queer and transsexual communities, but between the transgender and transsexual communities.[3]
He has also explored how the "logic of treatment" is different for trans men and trans women, outlining the now-outdated use of chemical castration on female-to-male people.[4] Rubin is a thought leader in the movement to distance transsexual political interests from those of the transgender movement as that movement becomes more aligned with the queer movement.[5]
References
- ^ Ryan, Joelle Ruby (September 22, 2004). New millennium trannies: gender-bending, identities, and cultural politics. Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources.
- ^ Rubin, Henry (2003). Self-made men: identity and embodiment among transsexual men. Vanderbilt University Press, ISBN 978-0-8265-1435-6
- ^ Halberstam, Judith (1998). Female masculinity. Duke University Press, ISBN 978-0-8223-2243-6
- ^ Stryker Susan and Stephen Whittle (2006). The transgender studies reader. CRC Press, ISBN 978-0-415-94709-1
- ^ Code, Lorraine (2003). Encyclopedia of feminist theories. Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-30885-4
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