582 - Thematic Session. Sexual Privilege

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

Sexual privilege includes high levels of sexual subjectivity (or a feeling of ownership over one’s sexuality and access to personal desires), freedom to have wanted sexual activity without stigma or negative repercussions, access to health care, freedom from violence, coercion, or harassment, and the ability to connect with desired sexual partners in safe, private places. Michelle Fine and Sara McClelland will address the role of institutions such as schools and health-care play in reducing, or potentially fostering, sexual subjectivity among young women. Rosalind Chou, author of Asian American Sexual Politics: The Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality (2012), will address the negative cultural frames that constitute sexualized oppression of young Asian Americans. Averil Clarke, author of Inequalities of Love: College-Educated Black Women and the Barriers to Romance and Family (2011), will discuss the toll of decades of racial inequality and discrimination on Black women’s intimate lives.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Laura Theresa Hamilton, University of California-Merced

Presider

• Laura Theresa Hamilton, University of California-Merced

Panelists

• Michelle Fine, City University of New York-Graduate Center

• Sara McClelland, University of Michigan

• Rosalind S Chou, Georgia State University

• Averil Y. Clarke, Suffolk University