517 - Thematic Session. Sex and Political Regimes

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

The papers in this session offer conceptual and empirical reflections on how sexualities are shaped by and experienced in different political regimes. In a variety of national and historical contexts, panelists ask how sexualities form and reflect key aspects of a political regime—and how the laws, science, ideologies, and religions propagated by these regimes embody distinct sexual prescriptions and identifications.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Lynne Allison Haney, New York University

Presider

• Lynne Allison Haney, New York University

Individual Presentations

• Rape and the Politics of Consent in Populist India - Poulami Roychowdhury, McGill University

• The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism - Elizabeth Bernstein, Barnard College

• I Now Declare You: Institutional Articulations and the Everyday Making of Marriage in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Michael W. Yarbrough, City University of New York-John Jay College

• Sexuality and Sexual Science Under State Socialism: The Case of Czechoslovakia - Katerina Liskova, Masaryk University