2242 - Let's Talk About Sex

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Sex is an extremely complex topic that often elides clear and concrete operationalization, even within sexualities scholarship. How do we define, think about, and talk about sex? How does sex get studied within sexualities research? Are there normative assumptions that guide and constrain sexualities research? We invite papers that discuss how sexualities scholars define, study, think about, and talk about sex. Beyond answering questions regarding the definition of sex and how scholars research sex itself, we are also interested in papers that expand understandings of sex beyond binaristic and normative frameworks. For example, how might focus on understudied and misunderstood sexualities—such as asexual/ace/aro identities and communities—reconfigure scholarship on sex and sexualities?

Sub Unit

• Section on the Sociology of Sexualities / Let's Talk About Sex

Session Organizer

• Julia Meszaros, Lebanon Valley College

Presider

• Julia Meszaros, Lebanon Valley College

Individual Presentations

• Girls Night Out: Homosociality in University Hookup Culture - Nicole Andrejek, McMaster University

• Sharing Sexual Images of the Gendered Self: Empowering, Disempowering, or Somewhere In-between? - Morgan Johnstonbaugh, University of Arizona

• Use of Grounded Theory in the Establishment of Black Sexual Epistemology - Tracie Q. Gilbert, Widener University

• Gender Uncoupled: Asexual People's Narratives of High School Sex Talk - Yuchen Yang, University of Chicago