If you’re in London this Friday, March 5, the Critical Sexology Seminar looks fascinating. The topic is “Sex Blogging, Gender, and Sexual Subcultures”.
The speakers are:
Dr. Kaye Mitchell (Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester) “Raunch vs. Prude: Contemporary Sex Blogs and Erotic Memoirs by Women”
Dr. Meg Barker and Prof. Rosalind Gill (Psychology, Open University) “Sexual Subjectification and ‘Bitchy Jones’s Diary’”
Kitty Stryker (Sex blogger, author of PurrVersatility) “‘En/forced femme’: The Peep Show Experience of Blogging as a Sex Worker”
According to their site, the Critical Sexology Seminar series is,
…a London-based, interdisciplinary seminar series for psychologists, psychoanalysts, medical doctors, literary and cultural studies scholars, philosophers, artists, lawyers and historians with a critical interest in the construction and management of gender and sexuality in the medical, discursive and cultural spheres.
The series is organized by Lisa Downing (University of Exeter), Meg Barker (Open University) and Robert Gillett (Queen Mary, University of London).
Attendance is free and open to all. For more information you can check out their website.
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Critical Sexology Seminar: Sex Blogging, Gender, and Sexual Subcultures originally appeared on About.com Sexuality on Monday, March 1st, 2010 at 00:01:10.
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