Events

LSE Gender Interdisciplinary Conversations: Rethinking Sexual Freedom

Hosted by the Department of Gender Studies

NAB.2.06, New Academic Building, United Kingdom

Speakers

Lisa Baraitser

Reader in Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, Univeristy of London.

Sumi Madhok

Associate Professor of Transnational Gender Studies, LSE Gender.

Clare Hemmings

Professor of Feminist Theory and Director of the Department of Gender Studies, SE

Leticia Sabsay

Assistant Professor of Gender and Contemporary Culture, LSE Gender.

Chair

Dr Sadie Wearing

Lecturer in Gender Theory, Culture and Media, LSE Gender

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.