[csaa-forum] CCS public lecture: 'Silencing Sexuality and Disability: Anxiety and Denial'

[Deborah Staines]

Public Lecture by Dr Margrit Shildrick

'Silencing Sexuality and Disability: Anxiety and Denial'

15th June, 2005
7pm-9pm
Metcalfe Auditorium
State Library NSW

Dr Margrit Shildrick (University College Dublin, Dublin)

In her new work, Dr Margrit Shildrick looks at the ways in which the
sexuality of people with disabilities is at best highly regulated and at
worst denied by the non-disabled majority. She argues that sexuality is
a potent site in which the vulnerability of the standards of normative
embodiment are exposed, and in consequence, those whose bodies already
fall outside standards of morphological acceptability are especially
provocative of anxiety.

Dr Margrit Shildrick is internationally renowned for her
interdisciplinary research on embodiment, through feminist philosophy
and bioethics, and more recently for her engagement with critical
disability studies. Her publications include:
Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges, eds. M. Shildrick & R.
Mykitiuk, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2005 (in-press)
Embodying the Monster: Encounters with the Vulnerable Self, London:
Sage, 2002
Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)ethics,
London: Routledge, 1997
Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader, eds. M. Shildrick & J. Price,
New York: Routledge, 1999

In 2005, Dr Shildrick is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of
Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, NSW

http://www.ccs.mq.edu.au/ 


Contact details:
Dr. Nikki Sullivan
Department of Critical and Cultural Studies
Macquarie University
North Ryde, NSW 2109
AUSTRALIA
E: Nikki.Sullivan at scmp.mq.edu.au 
P: +61 2 9850 8760

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