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Department of Gender and Cultural Studies 2011 seminar series<BR>
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THE DOUBLE BIND OF MODERN SEX: SHORTBUS AND THE MODERNIZATION OF ORGASM<BR>
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Professor Annamarie Jagose, University of Sydney<BR>
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With greater and greater precision, scholars from a range of disciplines have determined, across the tripwires of periodization, the historically specific pressures and shifts that mark the emergence of the modern system of sexuality. Across this archive, it is worth remarking on the emergence of two figures that are differently indexical to the new conditions of erotic possibility attendant on intensified personalizing relations and increased opportunities for impersonal transactions or encounters: the straight woman and the gay man. Paying attention to this seeming odd couple allows a closer consideration of what I am here calling the double bind of modern sex. After tracing the production of these two key protagonists through Anthony Giddens and Henning Bech’s influential accounts of modern sexual lifeworlds, this paper amplifies what is at stake in these discussions for our understanding of modern orgasm via readings of John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus (2006).<BR>
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Date: Friday 6 May 2011<BR>
Time: 14:00 - 16:00<BR>
Location: The Refectory, Main Quadrangle (downstairs from the Faculty of Arts)<BR>
Street: University Drive, University of Sydney<BR>
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All welcome. Drinks will follow at the New Law School Bar.<BR>
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Contact: Fiona Allon (<a href="fiona.allon@sydney.edu.au">fiona.allon@sydney.edu.au</a>) or Natalya Lusty (<a href="natalya.lusty@sydney.edu.au">natalya.lusty@sydney.edu.au</a>)<BR>
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