LSE Gender Interdisciplinary Conversations: Rethinking Sexual Freedom
Celebrating the publication of Leticia Sabsay’s The Political Imaginary of Sexual Freedom, in this panel feminist scholars Lisa Baraitser, Sumi Madhok, and Leticia Sabsay will engage with the book to consider what might be at stake in thinking politically about sexuality from different disciplinary backgrounds. How can we critically conceive the mobilisation of ‘the sexual subject’ taking into account its history as a psychosocial formation, a cultural construct and a political basis for action? How do sexual epistemologies travel and are translated (or not) into different contexts, both spatial and temporal? While sexuality has become attached to our identity, and is crucial for thinking about self-determination, what might it mean to think about sexual freedom relationally or in the light of a psychic life we cannot know or control? These are some of the questions that frame this interdisciplinary conversation on the epistemological underpinnings of imagining freedom through a sexual lens.