399 - Thematic Session. Comparative-Historical Approaches to Sexuality

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

If the disciplines of history and anthropology are associated with the variation in sexual meanings over time and in different cultures, sociology offers a specific competence in attending to comparisons in the contexts of states, markets and other institutions. David John Frank studies the changing cultural infrastructure of world society through criminal laws regulating incest, rape, adultery, and sodomy for 100+ countries. Jyoti Puri is an expert on sexualities, nationalisms and transnational feminisms in India and beyond, in her books Woman, Body, Desire in Post-colonial India, Encountering Nationalism, and the forthcoming Sexuality/State: Decriminalizing Homosexuality in India. Amy Schalet is the author of Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens and the Culture of Sex, a comparison of Dutch and American conceptions of selfhood. Greggor Mattson is the author of forthcoming pieces on the diverging meanings of prostitution in the European Union through the lens of welfare states and transnational feminisms.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Greggor Mattson, Oberlin College

Presider

• Greggor Mattson, Oberlin College

Panelists

• David John Frank, University of California-Irvine

• Jyoti Puri, Simmons College

• Amy T. Schalet, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

• Greggor Mattson, Oberlin College