Rethinking Disruptive Sex from the 19th to the 21st Century
This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together work on the history of childhood, medicine, gender, emotion, sex, and sexuality to question what it is that has given some sex disruptive or normative power from the 19th to the 21st century. The aim of the conference will be to question the assumptions we have about what disruptive and non-disruptive sex is, what contexts move sex from one category to another, and how these categories have changed over time and place. We encourage participants to particularly consider how the answers to these questions change across transnational contexts and time periods.
We welcome and anticipate papers considering the disruptive and normative potential of:
- Queer identities (LGBTQIA+)
- Youth and adolescence
- Sex work
- Activism
- Disease
- Emotion
- Promiscuity
- Abstinence
- Drugs
- Disability
- The law
- Gender
- Public and private space
- Race and ethnicity
- Representations of sex
- Technology
- Faith
- Class